In a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies, billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade, John le Carre creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted.
John le Carre was born in 1931. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. His recent novels include A Most Wanted Man, Our Kind of Traitor and A Delicate Truth.
When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le
Carré ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were
the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from
the rest of humankind
*Aung San Suu Kyi*
One of those writers who will be read a century from now
*Robert Harris*
He can communicate emotion, from sweating fear to despairing love,
with terse and compassionate conviction
*Sunday Times (on 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold')*
Return of the master . . . Having plumbed the devious depths of the
Cold War, le Carré has done it again for our nasty new age
*The Times (on 'Our Kind of Traitor')*
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