Soon to be a major BBC TV series
Terrorist organisations don't carry passengers... They don't have secretaries,typists,coding clerks,or any of the people who would normally make natural agents without being in the front line. They require a special kind of penetration... You want to crack the terror target these days... you practically have to build yourself your own terrorist first.
Charlie is an unhappy English actress in her twenties,longing for commitment: but to what and to whom While holidaying on the Greek island of Mykonos she is seduced by the handsome and mysterious Kurtz,an embattled Israeli intelligence officer on a mission to stop the bombing of Jews in Europe.
Forced to play her most challenging role,Charlie is plunged into elaborate plot set to entrap the elusive Palestinian terrorist behind the attacks,and soon proves herself a double agent of the highest order.
After the success of his Cold War thrillers,the publication in 1983 of his tenth novel The Little Drummer Girl marked le Carré's move into fresh and more politically-charged territory,with this acclaimed examination of terror and love.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241322376Number of pages: 656Weight: 447 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'John le Carré's graduation from the sophisticated puzzle to literature',New Statesman
'In my view,this book is at least as good as his best'- TheSpectator
'A few years ago le Carrésaid he had not written the book he would want to be buried with. Perhaps he has done so now.'- TheSunday Times
'An exciting story,excitingly told'- TheObserver
'The Little Drummer Girl is about spies as Madame Bovary is about adultery or Crime and Punishment about crime... Wonderful'- The New York Times
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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