'One of the most sophisticated fictional responses to the war on terror yet published'GuardianAn illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his name is Issa. To the idealistic young human rights lawyer Annabel,determined to save him from deportation,he is a worthy cause. To the intelligence services of Britain,Germany and America,however,he is a potential jihadist - and a pawn between them as they seek to make a kill in the war on terror. A Most Wanted Man is a gripping and disquieting story of paranoia,disillusionment and betrayal in the moral no-man's land of the post-9/11 world.'A first-class novel about the most pressing concerns of our time'Daily Telegraph
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241322420Number of pages: 368Weight: 269 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
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One of the most sophisticated fictional responses to the war on terror yet published
John le Carré
One of the greatest spy novelists of all time,John le Carré 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 all featuring his most famous character,George Smiley,the quintessential Cold War operative. An antidote to Fleming's racier James Bond,Smiley is cool,thoughtful,somewhat academic and (superficially) "breathtakingly normal"with a somewhat ambivalent attitude to the Service and its efficacy. His other novels,thrillers which range widely covering variously political issues of the arms trade,modern conflict and drug-trafficking,include: A Most Wanted Man,Our Kind of Traitor,A Delicate Truth and the recently adapted The Night Manager. His only work of non-fiction,The Pigeon Tunnel,was a Number One bestseller in 2016.
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