...It was simpler in those days. We could say they'd died for their country. We didn't have to tell them the details; they didn't expect that.
West Germany,a simmering cauldron of radical protests,has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld,menacing leader of the opposition.
At the same time Leo Harting,a Second Secretary in the British Embassy,has gone missing - along with more than forty confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them,facing riots,Nazi secrets and the delicate machinations of an unstable Europe in the throes of the Cold War. As Turner gets closer to the truth of Harting's disappearance,he will discover that the face of International relations - and the attentions of the British Ministry itself - is uglier that he could possibly have imagined.In this,one of his earliest novels,le Carre addressed some of the burning concerns of the late-1960s,in an ominous foretelling of the possible consequences of student unrest and rising neo-fascism.
'Brilliant,unforgettable...a masterpiece',New Statesman
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141196381Number of pages: 336Weight: 247 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm
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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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