SUMMARY: John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. A modern masterpiece in which le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart. It is now beyond doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed.

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's Private Secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it.Suspecting a disastrous conspiracy, Toby attempts to forestall it, but is promptly posted overseas. Three years on, summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely watched by Probyn's daughter Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and his duty to the Service.If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent?

A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand. A children’s entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the Black Sea. A celebrated London financier has disappeared into thin air. A British customs officer is on a trail of corruption and murder. The logical connection of these events is one of the many pleasures of this extraordinary new novel of love, deceit, family and the triumph of humanity. On le Carré’s roller-coaster, we hurtle from a seaside haven in Devon through the sophisticated jungle of West End wheeler-dealing, the crime-driven streets of post-Communist Russia to a billionaires’ fastness on the banks of the Bosphorus and a secret paradise in the High Caucasus. But Single & Single is above all a thrilling journey of the contemporary human heart – intimate, magical, riotous and subtly architected, showing us John le Carré at the height of his dramatic and creative powers.

George Smiley has become acting Chief of the Circus, or rather what remains of it. For the credibility of the British Secret Service has been shattered by his unmasking of a traitor within. It is being starved of funds by Whitehall, and sidelined by its American cousins. Smiley’s appointment, therefore, seems more like retribution than promotion.Yet from the first he goes onto the attack. His adversary is Karla, workname of the Soviet case officer who masterminded the Circus’s ruin. His battleground is Hong Kong, and his choice of weapons is the Honourable Gerald Westerby, Eastern hand and Fleet Street hack.Westerby’s odyssey takes him to collapsing Cambodia and Vietnam, to the insurgency area of North East Thailand and finally to the southernmost tip of the Hong Kong archipelago, to the very edge of the China Sea. His belated coming of age, his bounding humanity striving to get out, his courage and his recognition of love, are set in mounting dramatic contrast to the ever-growing needs of the service that claims his allegiance. ReviewPublisbers Weekly Bound to hit the top with predictable ease. -- ReviewFrom the Publisher15 1.5-hour cassettes

SUMMARY: Britain is in the depths of recession.A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua.By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch.He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment.

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.

SUMMARY: John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. A modern masterpiece in which le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart. It is now beyond doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed.

SUMMARY: John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. A modern masterpiece in which le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart. It is now beyond doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed.

" Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now. " From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he s writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire or the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth, visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide, celebrating New Year s Eve 1982 with Yasser Arafat and his high command, interviewing a German woman terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev, listening to the wisdoms of the great physicist, dissident, and Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, meeting with two former heads of the KGB, watching Alec Guinness prepare for his role as George Smiley in the legendary BBC TV adaptations, or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in "The Constant Gardener, " le Carre endows each happening with vividness and humor, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carre gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters."

SUMMARY: John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. A modern masterpiece in which le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart. It is now beyond doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed.

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's Private Secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it.Suspecting a disastrous conspiracy, Toby attempts to forestall it, but is promptly posted overseas. Three years on, summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely watched by Probyn's daughter Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and his duty to the Service.If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent?

With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protégé, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left...

SUMMARY:When London publisher Barley Blair receives an important smuggled document from Moscow, the English spymasters are forced to use him to establish the document's veracity. His collusion with Katya, the Moscow intermediary, may represent the way of the future, to the distaste of espionage professionals on both sides.

Either we make you rich or we make you dead. On a bleak January night at the outbreak of the Gulf War, Mr. Richard Onslow Roper, a very special visitor, arrives with his entourage at a Zurich hotel. The night manager, Jonathan Pine, recognizes him immediately—and prays that the identification is not mutual. Welcome to the new era of espionage, where the habits and rules forged in the darkest days of the Cold War are applied to an even more harrowing end. This is Roper's world—a world of illegal arms dealers and drug smugglers, men whose ruthlessness is matched only by their hunger for unlimited wealth. Enter Leonard Burr, former British intelligence officer turned international policeman. Burr recruits Pine to his cause, and launches him on an undercover odyssey that takes him from Zurich to the desolate coast of Cornwall, and eventually to a village in Quebec where he obtains the identity that will be his tickets of entry to Roper's island hideaway in the Bahamas. In what is perhaps John le Carré's greatest work to day, The Night Manager brings to life a whole new era of intrigue, brilliantly conceived by the undisputed master of the genre.

"FURIOUS IN ACTION...TAKES US BY THE NECK ON PAGE ONE AND NEVER LETS GO."--Chicago Sun-Times With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protégé, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left...."IRRESISTIBLE...A sinuous plot, leisurely introduced, whose coils become increasingly constricting. There is crisp, intelligent dialogue, much of it riding an undercurrent of menace. And there is a hero who does not see himself as heroic but who struggles with inner demons as much as with the forces arrayed against him."--Time"AS THRILLING AS LE CARRÉ GETS...The novel has the heartstop duplicity of A Perfect Spy and some of the outraged honor of The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl."--The Boston Globe"GRIPPING."--The Christian Science Monitor A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe haunting new novel from a master storyteller, the acclaimed author of The Night Manager and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. 2 cassettes.

"Gripping and moving. . . . A marvelous return to the John le Carre of old, with all the captivating characters, finely rendered landscapes, and messy complexities that have always powered his best work." -San Francisco ChronicleHailed everywhere as a masterpiece of suspense, John le Carre's return to Africa is the story of Bruno Salvador (aka Salvo), the 25-year-old orphaned love child of an Irish missionary and a Congolese woman. Quickly rising to the top of his profession as an interpreter, Salvo is dispatched by British Intelligence to a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, where he hears things not intended for his ears--and is forced to interpret matters never intended for his reawoken African conscience. By turns thriller, love story, and comic allegory of our times, The Mission Song recounts Salvo's heroically naive journey out of the dark of Western hypocrisy and into the heart of lightness."Entertaining... Salvo may be the author's most naive creation to date, but he is also one of the most fascinating and engaging... The atmosphere of intrigue builds nicely and convincingly."-Baltimore Sun"An incendiary tale... Le Carre's understanding of how the world ticks is, as always, machete sharp." -USA TODAY"To categorize Le Carre, as many do, as a 'spy' novelist is to do him a disservice; he uses the world of cloak-and-dagger much as Conrad used the sea--to explore the dark places in human nature.' -Washington Post Book World"Le Carre's insight into the dense, dangerous nexus of corporate and government interests is chillingly assured." -New York Times Book Review"Engaging, masterfully told... The Mission Song offers an emotional resonance that stays with a reader long after the book is done." -Cleveland Plain DealerFrom Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Bestseller le Carré (The Constant Gardener) brings a light touch to his 20th novel, the engrossing tale of an idealistic and naïve British interpreter, Bruno "Salvo" Salvador. The 29-year-old Congo native's mixed parentage puts him in a tentative position in society, despite his being married to an attractive upper-class white Englishwoman, who's a celebrity journalist. Salvo's genius with languages has led to steady work from a variety of employers, including covert assignments from shadowy government entities. One such job enmeshes the interpreter in an ambitious scheme to finally bring stability to the much victimized Congo, and Salvo's personal stake in the outcome tests his professionalism and ethics. Amid the bursts of humor, le Carré convincingly conveys his empathy for the African nation and his cynicism at its would-be saviors, both home-grown patriots and global powers seeking to impose democracy on a failed state. Especially impressive is the character of Salvo, who's a far cry from the author's typical protagonist but is just as plausible. (Sept.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Bookmarks MagazineThe Mission Song, John le Carré's 20th novel in a career spanning nearly half a century, most famously in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1964), receives mixed marks. Critics who enjoy the novel praise le Carré's intricate plotting, atmospheric settings, and his ear for dialogue—all the trademark riffs of the undisputed master of the Cold War thriller now setting his sights on new enemies. Those who detect a misfire here focus on the torturous complexity of the story and a confusing structure. Bottom line: Readers of le Carré will recall why they gravitated to his work in the first place; first-timers might have difficulty with the sometimes improbable twists and turns that impede a good spy story.Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.

« Du monde secret que j’ai connu jadis, j’ai essayé de faire un théâtre pour les autres mondes que nous habitons. D’abord vient l’imaginaire, puis la quête du réel. Et ensuite retour à l’imaginaire, et au bureau devant lequel je suis assis à cet instant. » John le CarréDepuis ses années de service dans le renseignement britannique pendant la Guerre froide jusqu’à une carrière d’écrivain qui l’emmena du Cambodge en guerre à Beyrouth après l’invasion israélienne de 1982, en passant par la Russie avant et après la chute du mur de Berlin, John le Carré s’est toujours placé au cœur de notre histoire contemporaine. Dans ce livre de mémoires inédits, il relate d’une plume aussi incisive que drolatique et avec la subtilité morale qui caractérise ses romans les événements dont il fut le témoin. Qu’il décrive le perroquet d’un hôtel de Beyrouth imitant à la perfection le crépitement des mitraillettes ou les premières notes de la Cinquième de Beethoven, sa découverte des charniers du génocide rwandais, son réveillon du Nouvel An 1982 avec Yasser Arafat, la sagesse du génial physicien Andreï Sakharov, sa rencontre avec deux anciens chefs du KGB ou avec l’humanitaire française qui lui inspira l’héroïne de La Constance du jardinier, son regard est souvent caustique, toujours pénétrant.Mais surtout John le Carré nous dévoile son parcours d’écrivain sur plus de six décennies et sa quête infatigable de l’étincelle humaine qui a insufflé tant de vie et de cœur à ses personnages de fiction.John le Carré, né en 1931, a étudié aux universités de Berne et d’Oxford, enseigné à Eton, et a été membre du service du renseignement britannique pendant la Guerre froide. Il se consacre à l’écriture depuis plus de soixante ans et partage sa vie entre Londres et la Cornouailles.Traduit de l’anglais (Grande-Bretagne) par Isabelle PerrinIsabelle Perrin, que tout destinait à une sage carrière universitaire, contracte le virus de la traduction littéraire auprès de sa mère Mimi. Les incurables duettistes cosigneront plus de trente traductions, dont tous les romans de John le Carré depuis La Maison Russie.John le Carré, né en 1931, a étudié aux universités de Berne et d'Oxford, enseigné à Eton, et a été membre du service du renseignement britannique pendant la Guerre froide. Il se consacre à l'écriture depuis plus de soixante ans et partage sa vie entre Londres et la Cornouailles. Isabelle Perrin, que tout destinait à une sage carrière universitaire, contracte le virus de la traduction littéraire auprès de sa mère Mimi. Les incurables duettistes cosigneront plus de trente traductions, dont tous les romans de John le Carré depuis La Maison Russie.

From the  New York Times  bestselling author of  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ;  Our Kind of Traitor ; and  The Night Manager , now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. Tell Max that it concerns the Sandman … A very junior agent answers Vladimir’s call, but it could have been the Chief of the Circus himself. No one at the British Secret Service considers the old spy to be anything except a senile has-been who can’t give up the game—until he’s shot in the face at point-blank range. Although George Smiley (code name: Max) is officially retired, he’s summoned to identify the body now bearing Moscow Centre’s bloody imprimatur. As he works to unearth his friend’s fatal secrets, Smiley heads inexorably toward one final reckoning with Karla—his dark “grail.” In Smiley’s People , master storyteller and New York Times bestselling author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Our Kind of Traitor John le Carré brings his acclaimed Karla Trilogy, to its unforgettable, spellbinding conclusion. With an introduction by the author.

From Publishers WeeklyLe CarreÌü's fourth George Smiley novel is handsomely dramatized in this BBC Audio production. Early in the 1960s the cold war is in full swing, and the Department, a holdover from the WWII section of British intelligence, forms an uneasy alliance with its rival agency, the Circus, when it is suspected that Soviet missiles may be in the process of being placed along the West German border. Death, lies, betrayal, secrets, secrets, and more secrets all add up to the kind of rich espionage story fans have come to expect from le CarreÌü. Though this production, by necessity of time, is forced to leave out much of the book on which it's based, the dramatization captures the essence of the material, and the actors expertly brings their characters to life and are supported with excellent production values. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ReviewPublishers Weekly A bitter, bleak, superlatively written novel.Financial Times (U.K.) A book of rare and great power.

Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.Review'Splendid, original ... le Carre shows how endowed he is with the gift of storytelling' -- The Times 'Comic and touching ... this novel is brilliant and marvellously good reading' -- Book World 'Sad, funny, captivating and stunningly fertile' -- Sunday Express About the AuthorJohn le Carre was born in 1931. He attended the universities of Bern and Oxford and later taught at Eton. He spent five years in the British Secret Service.

London, 2018. Years As An Agent Runner Over, Nat Is Put In Charge Of The Haven, And Its Ragtag Band Of Spies. The Only Bright Light On The Team Is Florence, Who Has Her Eye On Russia Department And A Ukrainian Oligarch With A Finger In The Russia Pie. When He Meets Ed At A Badminton Game, The Solitary Young Man Ensnares Nat In The Political Turbulence That Lead Down A Dangerous Path. -- Adapted From Jacket John Le Carré. Issued Also In Electronic Format.

Amazon.com ReviewBritish diplomat Justin Quayle, complacent raiser of freesias and doting husband of the stunning, much younger Tessa, has tended his own garden in Nairobi too long. Tessa is Justin's opposite, a fiery reformer, "that rarest thing, a lawyer who believes in justice," whose campaigns have earned her a nickname: "the Princess Diana of the African poor." But now Tessa has turned up naked, raped, and dead on a mysterious visit to remote Lake Turkana in Kenya. Her traveling companion (and lover?), the handsome Congolese-Belgian doctor Arnold Bluhm, has vanished. So has Quayle's complacency.Tessa had been compiling data against a multinational drug company that uses helpless Africans as guinea pigs to test a tuberculosis remedy with unfortunately fatal side effects. Her report was destroyed by her husband's superiors; was she? It's all somehow connected to the sinister British firm House of ThreeBees, whose ad boasts that it's "buzzy for the health of Africa!" John le Carré symbolically associates ThreeBees with an ominous buzz in the Nairobi morgue: "Over [the corpses], in a swaying, muddy mist, hung the flies, snoring on a single note."The home office tries to take Quayle in out of the cold. He cleverly eludes their clammy embrace, turns spy, and takes off on a global chase to avenge Tessa and solve her murder. Le Carré has lost none of his gift for setting vivid scenes in far-flung places expertly described: London, Germany, Saskatchewan, Kenya. His sprinting thriller prose remains in great shape. And thanks to his 16 years in the British Foreign Office, his merciless send-up of its cutthroat intrigues and petty self-delusions is unbelievably good--or rather, believably so. This is global do-gooder satire on a literary par with Doris Lessing's The Summer Before the Dark.But you want to know if The Constant Gardener is as good as Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Very nearly. Africa's nightmare is more complex than the cold war chess match, and the world pharmaceutical circus is tougher to dramatize than the old spy-versus-spy-versus-spymaster game. Still, le Carré can write a smart, melancholy page-turner, and his moral outrage (the real subject of his books) burns as brightly as ever. --Tim AppeloFrom Publishers WeeklyAs the world seems to move ever further beyond the comparatively clear-cut choices of the Cold War into a moral morass in which greed and cynicism seem the prime movers, le Carr 's work has become increasingly radical, and this is by far his most passionately angry novel yet. Its premise is similar to that of Michael Palmer's Miracle CureDcynical pharmaceutical firm allied with devious doctors attempts to foist on the world a flawed but potentially hugely profitable drugDbut the difference is in the setting and the treatment. Le Carr has placed the prime action in Africa, where the drug is being surreptitiously tested on poor villagers. Tessa Quayle, married to a member of the British High Commission staff in corruption-riddled contemporary Kenya, gets wind of it and tries in vain to blow the whistle on the manufacturer and its smarmy African distributor. She is killed for her pains. At this point Justin Quayle, her older, gentlemanly husband, sets out to find out who killed her, and to stop the dangerous drug himselfDat a terrible cost. Le Carr 's manifold skills at scene-setting and creating a range of fearsomely convincing English characters, from the bluffly absurd to the irredeemably corrupt, are at their smooth peak here. Both The Tailor of Panama and Single & Single were feeling their way toward this wholehearted assault on the way the world works, by a man who knows much better than most novelists writing today how it works. Now subject and style are one, and the result is heart-wrenching. (Jan. 9) Forecast: Admirers of the author who may have found some of the moral ambiguities and overelaborate set pieces of his last two books less than top-drawer le Carr will welcome a return to his best form. There is a wonderfully charismatic and idealistic heroine, which will bolster female readership, and the appearance of the book shortly after the release of a movie of Tailor (starring Jamie Lee Curtis) is bound to create an extra rush of media attention. Be prepared for the biggest le Carr sales in years. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

À quarante-sept ans, Nat, vétéran des services de renseignement britanniques, est de retour à Londres auprès de Prue, son épouse et alliée inconditionnelle. Il pressent que ses jours comme agent de terrain sont comptés. Mais avec la menace grandissante venue de Moscou, le Service lui offre une dernière mission : diriger le Refuge, une sous-station du département Russie où végète une clique d'espions décatis. À l'exception de Florence, jeune et brillante recrue, qui surveille de près les agissements suspects d'un oligarque ukrainien. Nat n'est pas seulement un agent secret. C'est aussi un joueur de badminton passionné. Tous les lundis soir dans son club il affronte un certain Ed, grand gaillard déconcertant et impétueux, qui a la moitié de son âge. Ed déteste le Brexit, déteste Trump et déteste son travail obscur. Et c'est Ed, le plus inattendu de tous, qui mû par la colère et l'urgence va déclencher un mécanisme irréversible et entraîner avec lui Prue, Florence et Nat dans un piège infernal. Avec Retour de service, John le Carré, en éminent chroniqueur de notre époque, livre un portrait du monde que nous habitons, glaçant, délicatement satirique et porté par une tension constante. Traduit de l'anglais (Grande-Bretagne) par Isabelle Perrin "Aucun autre écrivain n'a su mieux que John le Carré restituer - sans pitié à l'égard des politiciens - les affaires publiques et les coulisses secrètes de notre temps." The Guardian "Subtil, désabusé, impeccable. Un bonheur de lecture, de la première à la dernière page." The Daily Mail "Retour de service tombe à point nommé comme le signal urgent d'un lanceur d'alerte". The Washington Post Bio auteur à venir. Isabelle Perrin, que tout destinait à une sage carrière universitaire, contracte le virus de la traduction littéraire auprès de sa mère Mimi. Les incurables duettistes cosigneront plus de trente traductions, dont tous les romans de John le Carré depuis La Maison Russie

John le Carré has earned worldwide acclaim with extraordinary spy novels, including The Russia House, an unequivocal classic. Navigating readers through the shadow worlds of international espionage with critical knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carré tracks the dark and devastating trail of a document that could profoundly alter the course of world events.In Moscow, a sheaf of military secrets changes hands. If it arrives at its destination, and if its import is understood, the consequences could be cataclysmic. Along the way it has an explosive impact on the lives of three people: a Soviet physicist burdened with secrets; a beautiful young Russian woman to whom the papers are entrusted; and Barley Blair, a bewildered English publisher pressed into service by British Intelligence to ferret out the document's source. A magnificent story of love, betrayal, and courage, The Russia House catches history in the act. For as the Iron Curtain begins to rust and crumble, Blair is left to sound a battle cry that may fall on deaf ears.From Publishers WeeklyA dissident Soviet physicist asks a down-at-the-heels, jazz-loving London publisher to issue his insider's study of the chaotic state of Soviet defense. "The master of the spy novel has discovered perestroika , and the genre may never be the same again," observed PW . Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalA mysterious manuscript purporting to prove the Soviet defense system is unworkable is smuggled out of Moscow. It was intended for a flaky English publisher, a womanizing saxophone-playing boozer, but the smuggler has turned it over to British intelligence. In order to prove its authenticity, they recruit the publisher as an amateur spy and send him to Moscow to reestablish contact with the author. But the "truth" Barley Blair finds there is love and a purpose for his shambles of a life. As always with le Carre, this is a compelling spy story, a marvelous entertainment that is also as intelligent, witty, and brooding as many more self-consciously and less satisfying literary novels. It may not be the equal of The Quest for Karla trilogy or of a A Perfect Spy but it bears all the marks of a master, of the man who has both redefined and reanimated the espionage genre. BOMC main selection.- Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This is the second of le Carre's Smiley novels, featuring the character of George Smiley who was introduced in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". The story involves the betrayal of a Soviet spy and suspicions that the network has been infiltrated from the top downwards.

Issa, jeune musulman russe affamé, arrive clandestinement à Hambourg en pleine nuit, avec autour du cou une bourse renfer-mant une somme substantielle d’argent liquide et les reliques d’un passé mystérieux. Annabel, jeune avocate idéaliste travaillant pour une association d’aide aux immigrés, se jure de sauver Issa de l’expulsion, au point de faire passer la survie de son client avant sa propre carrière. Tommy Brue, patron sexagénaire d’une banque anglaise en perdition sise à Hambourg, détient les clefs de l’héritage interlope du père d’Issa.Ces trois âmes innocentes forment un triangle amoureux désespéré, sur lequel vont fondre les espions de trois nations différentes, tous résolus à marquer des points pour leur camp dans la guerre avouée contre le terrorisme et la guerre inavouable entre leurs services respectifs. Peuplé de personnages inoubliables, Un homme très recherché fait la part belle à un humour caustique, tout en entretenant une tension croissante jusqu’à une scène finale poignante.Cette œuvre pleine d’une profonde humanité, ancrée dans les turbulences de notre époque où des forces en constante mutation se percutent partout dans le monde, révèle une vision d’ensemble réfléchie, sombre, impressionnante de logique et d’acuité.

John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.In this classic masterwork, le Carré expands upon his extraordinary vision of a secret world as George Smiley goes on the attack.In the wake of a demoralizing infiltration by a Soviet double agent, Smiley has been made ringmaster of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service). Determined to restore the organization's health and reputation, and bent on revenge, Smiley thrusts his own handpicked operative into action. Jerry Westerby, "The Honourable Schoolboy," is dispatched to the Far East. A burial ground of French, British, and American colonial cultures, the region is a fabled testing ground of patriotic allegiances?and a new showdown is about to begin.ReviewTime All the good things are there: the Balkan complexities of plot; the Dickensian profusion of idiosyncratic characters; and above all, le Carré's glistening social observation. -- ReviewNewsweekLe Carré has once again elevated the possibilities of the spy novel.The New York TimesNot a page of this book is without intelligence and grace.TimeAll the good things are there: the Balkan complexities of plot; the Dickensian profusion of idiosyncratic characters; and above all, le Carré's glistening social observation.From the PublisherGeorge Smiley has become chief of the battered British Secret Service. The betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network. Smiley wants revenge. He chooses his weapon: Jerry Westerby, 'The Honourable Schoolboy', a passionate lover and a seasoned, reckless secret agent. Westerby is pointed east, to Hong Kong. So begins the terrifying game ...ReviewPraise for The Constant Gardener -- : 'The master storyteller...has lost none of his cunning' -- A. N. Wilson, Daily Mail 'The book breathes life, anger and excitement' -- Nigel Williams, Observer 'A cracking thriller' -- Economist 'Nobody writing today manipulates suspense better. Nobody constructs a more tantalisingly complex plot ... essential reading' -- Chris Woodhead, Sunday TelegraphAbout the AuthorJohn le Carre was born in 1931. His third novel, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, secured him a wide reputation which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY and SMILEY'S PEOPLE. His other novels include THE CONSTANT GARDENER, A MOST WANTED MAN and OUR KIND OF TRAITOR.

Tessa Quayle, jeune et belle avocate anglaise, a été sauvagement assassinée dans le nord du Kenya. Son compagnon et amant supposé, médecin africain d'une organisation humanitaire, a disparu. Justin, l'époux de Tessa, diplomate de carrière au haut-commissariat britannique de Nairobi et jardinier amateur, se lance dans une quête solitaire à la recherche des tueurs et de leur mobile.Sa quête l'entraîne à Londres puis à travers l'Europe et au Canada, pour le ramener en Afrique jusqu'au Sud-Soudan et se terminer sur les lieux même du crime. Une odyssée pleine de violence et de fureur où se trament les sombres machinations de multinationales pharmaceutiques, où se nouent d'étranges alliances politiques.

Tessa Quayle, jeune et belle avocate anglaise, a été sauvagement assassinée dans le nord du Kenya. Son compagnon et amant supposé, médecin africain d'une organisation humanitaire, a disparu. Justin, l'époux de Tessa, diplomate de carrière au haut-commissariat britannique de Nairobi et jardinier amateur, se lance dans une quête solitaire à la recherche des tueurs et de leur mobile.Sa quête l'entraîne à Londres puis à travers l'Europe et au Canada, pour le ramener en Afrique jusqu'au Sud-Soudan et se terminer sur les lieux même du crime. Une odyssée pleine de violence et de fureur où se trament les sombres machinations de multinationales pharmaceutiques, où se nouent d'étranges alliances politiques.

Today, Mundy is a down-at-the-heels tour guide in southern Germany, dodging creditors, supporting a new family, and keeping an eye out for trouble while in spare moments vigorously questioning the actions of the country he once bravely served. And trouble finds him, as it has before, in the shape of an old German student friend, radical, and onetime fellow spy, the crippled Sasha, seeker after absolutes, dreamer, and chaos addict. After years of trawling the Middle East and Asia as an itinerant university lecturer, Sasha has yet again discovered the true, the only, answer to life-this time in the form of a mysterious billionaire philanthropist named Dimitri. Thanks to Dimitri, both Mundy and Sasha will find a path out of poverty, and with it their chance to change a world that both believe is going to the devil. Or will they? Who is Dimitri? Why does Dimitri's gold pour in from mysterious Middle Eastern bank accounts? And why does his apparently noble venture reek less of starry idealism than of treachery and fear? Some gifts are too expensive to accept. Could this be one of them? With a cooler head than Sasha's, Mundy is inclined to think it could. In Absolute Friends , John le Carre delivers the masterpiece he has been building to since the fall of communism: an epic tale of loyalty and betrayal that spans the lives of two friends from the riot-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold War Europe to the present day of terrorism and new alliances. This is the novel le Carre fans have been waiting for, a brilliant, ferocious, heartbreaking work for the ages.

Le diplomate Justin Quayle est affecté à Nairobi, Kenya, au haut commissariat britannique qu'il représente au C.E.D.A.O., un organisme chargé de contrôler l'action humanitaire en Afrique. Sa séduisante épouse, la jeune avocate Tessa, scandalisée par la misère qu'elle découvre dans ce pays, milite aux côtés de membres d'O.N.G. et dénonce divers scandales dans une série de documents qu'elle adresse au ministère britannique. Alors qu'elle était partie en mission dans le nord du pays, on la retrouve assassinée dans sa Jeep près du lac Turkana. Le médecin africain Arnold Bluhm qui l'accompagnait, et que la rumeur considère comme son amant, est porté disparu. Deux policiers venus de Londres interrogent Justin Quayle. Ils le soupçonnent d'avoir fait exécuter sa femme par jalousie. Finalement disculpé, il rentre à Londres en ayant soustrait aux autorités une partie des documents de Tessa. Sous une fausse identité, il décide de se lancer à la recherche des assassins.Parfaitement construit avec une série de retours en arrière judicieusement imbriqués, La Constance du jardinier raconte comment, par amour pour son épouse disparue, Justin va brusquement prendre conscience de la grande misère des Africains et de l'exploitation qu'ils continuent de subir à cause des multinationales et de la complicité des gouvernements de pays industrialisés. Un admirable récit à la John Le Carré. Claude MesplèdeQuatrième de couvertureTessa Quayle, jeune et belle avocate anglaise, a été sauvagement assassinée près du lac Turkana dans le nord du Kenya. Son compagnon de voyage et amant supposé, médecin africain d'une organisation humanitaire, a disparu sans laisser de trace. Justin, l'époux de Tessa, diplomate de carrière au haut-commissariat britannique de Nairobi et jardinier amateur, se lance dans une quête solitaire à la recherche des tueurs et de leur mobile. Sa quête l'entraîne à Londres, puis à travers l'Europe et au Canada, pour le ramener en Afrique jusqu'au Sud-Soudan et se terminer sur les lieux mêmes du crime. Une odyssée pleine de violence et de fureur où se trament les sombres machinations de multinationales pharmaceutiques, où se nouent d'étranges alliances politiques. Et tandis que s'éveille la conscience de Justin, tandis qu'il se rallié à la cause deTessa, allant jusqu'à achever la mission qu'elle s'était assignée, sa plus grande révélation sera la découverte de cette femme qu'il n'a guère eu le temps d'aimer. La Constance du jardinier mêle l'histoire bouleversante d'un homme grandi par la tragédie et l'impitoyable exploration de la face cachée de la mondialisation par l'un des romanciers les plus incisifs de notre époque.

Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama, through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes; Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshly, is a spy. His secret mission is two-pronged: to keep a watchful eye on the political manoeuvrings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal on 31st December 1999; and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has until now churlishly eluded him.Amazon.com ReviewJohn le Carré, the greatest spy novelist of the Cold War era, continues his post-Cold War quest to define the genre he helped perfect. The classic spy novel was essentially a story of good (England, the United States) vs. evil (Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union), in which good more or less prevailed. The Tailor of Panama is something else entirely: a spy novel with no spies in which the bad guys reap most of the rewards. It is also a viciously funny satire. The novel is set in Panama, where a plot is in place to make void the Panama Treaty, which would return control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanians in 1999. At the center of events is Harry Pendel, the tailor of the title. Coerced into working for British Intelligence, he concocts out of whole cloth a left-wing movement with the goal of luring the American military to do the dirty work--invade Panama à la 1989 and nullify the treaty. From the characters to the setting, le Carré has succeeded in setting new parameters for an old genre. From Publishers WeeklyThe many and various talents of le Carr‚ give this new audio version of his 1996 novel more than enough reasons for approval. Most obvious is the fact that he is a wonderful reader a natural, honest storyteller and artful actor who can command our attention and hold it long after others might lose their grip. In just a few minutes, he brings to life a large gallery of diverse characters: an upper-class narrator; a British tailor, Harry Pendel, who can't quite hide his East End Jewish, ex-convict roots; his American wife, Louisa, who pulses with do-gooder zeal; a Panamanian soldier whose English is limited to one phrase; a Panamanian banker who oozes hypocrisy; the Cockney ghost of Harry's crooked old uncle; and a rather nasty working-class British spy who threatens to upset Harry's delicately balanced life. Le Carr‚'s superb reading skills also enable listeners to stop and sniff the prose to realize just how good a writer he really is. Based on the Knopf hardcover.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Un terrorista palestinese tremendamente pericoloso ed elusivo; un funzionario dei servizi segreti israeliani dotato di feroce energia e passione. Sono questi i protagonisti di un'implacabile caccia all'uomo ambientata nel mondo dello spionaggio internazionale. Per catturare l'odiata preda, l'israeliano prepara un'elaborata trappola, labirinto fatto di realtà e illusione, tra l'Europa e il Medio Oriente. Pedine di questo suo gioco sono Joseph, ex soldato dei corpi speciali israeliani ormai stanco di combattere, e Charlie, giovane attrice che calca senza troppo successo le scene della provincia inglese. E che ora si trova intrappolata al centro di una grandiosa finzione, costretta a interpretare il ruolo più impegnativo della sua carriera.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Our Kind of Traitor; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. Tell Max that it concerns the Sandman...A very junior agent answers Vladimir’s call, but it could have been the Chief of the Circus himself. No one at the British Secret Service considers the old spy to be anything except a senile has-been who can’t give up the game—until he’s shot in the face at point-blank range. Although George Smiley (code name: Max) is officially retired, he’s summoned to identify the body now bearing Moscow Centre’s bloody imprimatur. As he works to unearth his friend’s fatal secrets, Smiley heads inexorably toward one final reckoning with Karla—his dark “grail.”In Smiley’s People, master storyteller and New York Times bestselling author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Our Kind of Traitor John le Carré brings his acclaimed Karla Trilogy, to its unforgettable, spellbinding conclusion.With an introduction by the author.

In this enthralling and thought-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young actress, is lured into 'the theatre of the real' by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist. THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL is a thrilling, deeply moving and courageous novel of our times.Review'In my view, this book is at least as good as his best' -- Spectator 'A few years ago le Carre said he had not written the book he would want to be buried with. Perhaps he has done so now.' -- Sunday Times 'An exciting story, excitingly told' -- Observer About the AuthorJohn le Carre was born in 1931. His third novel, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, secured him a wide reputation which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY and SMILEY'S PEOPLE. His other novels include THE CONSTANT GARDENER, A MOST WANTED MAN and OUR KIND OF TRAITOR.

A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand. A children’s entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the Black Sea. A celebrated London financier has disappeared into thin air. A British customs officer is on a trail of corruption and murder. The logical connection of these events is one of the many pleasures of this extraordinary new novel of love, deceit, family and the triumph of humanity. On le Carré’s roller-coaster, we hurtle from a seaside haven in Devon through the sophisticated jungle of West End wheeler-dealing, the crime-driven streets of post-Communist Russia to a billionaires’ fastness on the banks of the Bosphorus and a secret paradise in the High Caucasus. But Single & Single is above all a thrilling journey of the contemporary human heart – intimate, magical, riotous and subtly architected, showing us John le Carré at the height of his dramatic and creative powers.OverviewJohn le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international intrigue with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim.A lawyer from a London finance house is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children's magician in the English countryside is asked to explain the arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust. In Single & Single, le Carré masterfully establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious, complex and compelling. He tells of corrupt liaisons between criminal elements in the new Russian states and the world of legitimate finance in the West. He also paints an intimate portrait of two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits; one betrayed by a son-in-law, the other betrayed, and redeemed, by a son.Editorial ReviewsFrom Barnes & Noble John le Carré is, by a large margin, the modern era's greatest chronicler of the shadowy, morally ambiguous world of espionage. His splendid novel, Single & Single, successfully comes to grips with the rapidly changing social and political realities of a world formed in the aftermath of Soviet communism's spectacular collapse. Andrew Ross In the nerve-wracking first chapter of Single & Single, his 17th book, John le Carré describes the mounting panic and horror — "a mess of sweat and piss and mud" — of a lawyer for a British investment house who realizes he is about to be killed by Georgian gangsters on a lonely Turkish hillside. Cut to a seaside town in Devon, England, where Oliver Single, the son of the investment house's proprietor, is trying to create a new life for himself away from the corruption his father has fallen into. When news of the lawyer's murder gets out and representatives of HM Customs want to know how 5 million pounds have suddenly shown up in Oliver's daughter's trust fund, all hell begins to break loose in a way that will make le Carre's fans rub their hands together in anticipation of another jolly good — if complicated, ambiguous and meaningful — read. As it turns out, Single & Single is neither especially jolly nor particularly meaningful. Perhaps that's because, except for the occasional shimmering passage, there is nothing terribly surprising about the key components of the plot: corrupt British financiers and nasty gangsters from the former Soviet Union who will trade in blood or drugs or anything else available in the new world order's glorious free-market economy. Le Carre relates the means by which these two forces come together with a peculiar flatness and at tedious length. We learn little about either Single, except that the father is short and greedy and the son is tall, attractive to women and, eventually, troubled by his conscience.The ex-Soviets, meanwhile, spend a lot of time eating great hunks of meat cooked over an open fire while tiresomely proclaiming eternal devotion to their ethnicity — "Now you are true Mingrelian!" one of them bellows to Oliver after he has drained a hornful of homemade wine from some part of Georgia. The chief villain, Alix Hoban, wears a "ghostly sneer of the hairline lips" as he whispers into his cell phone, which he does incessantly, even when he's killing people. If he were a dwarf or a hunchback, the picture would be complete.A sense of familiarity pervades the book. Oliver's friendship with the son of his landlady echoes the much more touchingly drawn one of the battered agent Jim Prideaux and the schoolboy Roach ("Jumbo") in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The archness le Carre used to such great effect in the mouth of the oafish Percy Alleline (in Tinker, Tailor) is overused here — anachronistically, as if he were imitating Evelyn Waugh. It looks, in fact, as though le Carre's chief goal here was to sell Single & Single to the movies: There are certainly enough set pieces to make any decent director's job pretty straightforward.But even Conrad and Greene (to whom le Carre has been compared) had their off days. For all its shortcomings, the book has moments that show what le Carre is still capable of when it comes to exploring the human factor. Near the end, he writes of Oliver's desire "to magic his father out of here and say sorry to him if he felt it, though he wasn't sure he did ... to set him on his feet, but say, 'There you are, you're on your own, we're quits.'" Le Carre may have fallen and bruised himself on this outing. That's no reason, however, to call it quits. — SalonAnthony Lejeune ...[A] decidedly unusual, satisfying book: literary novel and thriller combined... — National ReviewKyle Smith ...le Carre reveals a world at once deeply disquieting and oddly reassuring... —People MagazineMichael Lewis Today [le Carre] faces the same problem as his spies: he has to find something else to do....The moral center of the story is a young man who betrays his father in order to save him. In le Carre's hands betrayal becomes a formof loyalty. it is a rich idea....But try getting it across in a real bank! — The New York Times Book ReviewNewsweek Swell writing.Paul GraySingle & Single provides a fascinating journey through the new landscape of corruption....The power of Single & Single stems from the author's portrait of a world in which individuals are no match for the organized mania of greed. — Time MagazineTom De Haven ...[H]e continues to write convincing and inventive [books]....his prose...is leanerfaster. —Entertainment WeeklyFrom The Critics Reading a novel by Le Carre is a lot like peeling an onion from the inside out. You're dropped into the middle of the story and fro there you learn the before-and-after...Publishers Weekly Le Carr reads his new thriller with the voice of a master of the genre, gamely throwing himself into long passages of the dialogue-driven plot. He jumps right into the complex story, set in locations that shift back and forth from Turkey to England, with little set-up explanation. The sense of atmosphere is rich, the polished, descriptive scenes exquisite. However, perhaps due to the abridgment process, a listener is left playing catch-up throughout the tape, struggling to discern what's really going on with the characters. At heart, this is a story of a struggle between father and son, shadowy financier Tiger Single and children's magician Oliver Hawthorne. Tiger has deserted the family to consort with Russian mobsters, and Oliver, having betrayed his father once, now must fight to save his life. They're joined by a complex financial thread that provides the central framework for the international intrigue propelling the action. As audio, the listening experience is frustrating because the material sounds so wonderful, yet it's difficult to keep a grip on what's happening. Simultaneous release with the Scribner hardcover. (Mar.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.Library Journal Plainly, the first essential of a top-rate tale of intrigue is that it catch and excite interest in the telling of its uncertain tale. And the longer it keeps readers guessing, the more intriguing it is likely to be. These two essentials are eminently satisfied by le Carré's latest offering. The story revolves around the fortunes and misfortunes of two ice-cold opportunists, Tiger and Oliver Single, father-and-son partners in the London-based venture capital firm of Single and Single and their involvement with two nefarious Russian brothers and their unsavory cohorts. No one in the book is a model character in the moral sense of the word; dark deeds involving murder, bribery, false identifications, betrayals, money laundering, and other forms of villainy are the order of the day. Though it is sometimes difficult to follow the action precisely, in true le Carré fashion the scattered story elements gradually fall into place. Guaranteed to keep ennui at bay. — A.J. Anderson, GSLIS, Simmons College, BostonMichiko Kakutani ...[K]ey events unfold with Mr. le Carré's usual authority and aplomb....The reader is immersed in Oliver's psychologial drama and at the same time ineluctably drawn into the dizzying world of international contraband and high finance. — The New York TimesKirkus Reviews Now that the Evil Empire has fallen, le Carré (The Tailor of Panama) continues to explore the endless opportunities for junior-grade evil when East meets West through the accommodating offices of a wealthy banking family. In one forgotten corner of the world, a butterfly flaps its wings; in another, a life rebuilt of carefully planned lies begins to unravel. The butterfly is Alfred Winser, chief legal counsel to the banking firm of Single & Single, executed on a Turkish hilltop, to his astonishment, by financier Alix Hoban in the tour de force opening. A continent away in a Devon coastal town, children's magician Oliver Hawthorne gets the news that his daughter Carmen's trust fund has been credited with a deposit of 5,000,030 pounds. The authorities who follow the news posthaste want to know the deposit's source, but Oliver is more troubled by its figure: half a million pounds plus 30 pieces of silver (only the most obvious of le Carré's many biblical references). Oliver is shocked that his father, shadowy financier Tiger Single, knows how to find him four years after he bolted from the family business, horrified by the licentious scope of Tiger's dealings with Georgian mob alumni Yevgeny and Mikhail Orlov. But Oliver's sickened recollections of how his father's business penetrated every crevice of Oliver's life, from his family ties to the Orlov brothers to the affairs he commenced in a futile attempt to act out his independence, will inevitably yield to a more urgent imperative: his return to the fold when it becomes obvious that he's the only person who has a chance of saving Tiger from the forces - the Georgian mob, an ambitious assassin, a treacherousflunky, the Inland Revenue - who seem to have been queued up for years awaiting their chance to destroy him. Deprived of the great subject of Cold War espionage he handled better than any other novelist, le Carré now argues that individual greed, not ideology, is the villain to watch out for, and individual enterprise the only possible hope.

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's Private Secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it.Suspecting a disastrous conspiracy, Toby attempts to forestall it, but is promptly posted overseas. Three years on, summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely watched by Probyn's daughter Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and his duty to the Service.If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent?'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times, from the second world war to the 'war on terror'' Guardian'The master of the modern spy novel returns . . . this is writing of such quality that - as Robert Harris put it - it will be read in one hundred years. John le Carr' was never a spy-turned-writer, he was a writer who found his canvas in espionage, as Dickens did in other worlds. The two men deserve comparison' Daily Mail'A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and shameful compromises' Observer'With A Delicate Truth,le Carr' has in a sense come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . the novel is the most satisfying, subtle and compelling of his recent oeuvre' The Times*John le Carr' was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.Review“Le Carré further establishes himself as a master of a new, shockingly realistic kind of noir.”—BooklistAbout the AuthorJohn le Carré, the pseudonym for David Cornwell, was a member of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 1964. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, became a worldwide bestseller. He has written twenty-two novels, which have been published in thirty-six languages. Many of his books have been made into films, including The Constant Gardener, The Russia House, The Little Drummer Girl, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Présentation de l'éditeur« Du monde secret que j’ai connu jadis, j’ai essayé de faire un théâtre pour les autres mondes que nous habitons. D’abord vient l’imaginaire, puis la quête du réel. Et ensuite retour à l’imaginaire, et au bureau devant lequel je suis assis à cet instant. » John le Carré Depuis ses années de service dans le renseignement britannique pendant la Guerre froide jusqu’à une carrière d’écrivain qui l’emmena du Cambodge en guerre à Beyrouth après l’invasion israélienne de 1982, en passant par la Russie avant et après la chute du mur de Berlin, John le Carré s’est toujours placé au cœur de notre histoire contemporaine. Dans ce livre de mémoires inédits, il relate d’une plume aussi incisive que drolatique et avec la subtilité morale qui caractérise ses romans les événements dont il fut le témoin. Qu’il décrive le perroquet d’un hôtel de Beyrouth imitant à la perfection le crépitement des mitraillettes ou les premières notes de la Cinquième de Beethoven, sa découverte des charniers du génocide rwandais, son réveillon du Nouvel An 1982 avec Yasser Arafat, la sagesse du génial physicien Andreï Sakharov, sa rencontre avec deux anciens chefs du KGB ou avec l’humanitaire française qui lui inspira l’héroïne de La Constance du jardinier, son regard est souvent caustique, toujours pénétrant. Mais surtout John le Carré nous dévoile son parcours d’écrivain sur plus de six décennies et sa quête infatigable de l’étincelle humaine qui a insufflé tant de vie et de cœur à ses personnages de fiction. John le Carré, né en 1931, a étudié aux universités de Berne et d’Oxford, enseigné à Eton, et a été membre du service du renseignement britannique pendant la Guerre froide. Il se consacre à l’écriture depuis plus de soixante ans et partage sa vie entre Londres et la Cornouailles. Traduit de l’anglais (Grande-Bretagne) par Isabelle Perrin Isabelle Perrin, que tout destinait à une sage carrière universitaire, contracte le virus de la traduction littéraire auprès de sa mère Mimi. Les incurables duettistes cosigneront plus de trente traductions, dont tous les romans de John le Carré depuis La Maison Russie. Biographie de l'auteurJohn le Carré, né en 1931, a étudié aux universités de Berne et d'Oxford, enseigné à Eton, et a été membre du service du renseignement britannique pendant la Guerre froide. Il se consacre à l'écriture depuis plus de soixante ans et partage sa vie entre Londres et la Cornouailles. Isabelle Perrin, que tout destinait à une sage carrière universitaire, contracte le virus de la traduction littéraire auprès de sa mère Mimi. Les incurables duettistes cosigneront plus de trente traductions, dont tous les romans de John le Carré depuis La Maison Russie.

In this enthralling and thought-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young actress, is lured into ‘the theatre of the real’ by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist. The Little Drummer Girl is a thrilling, deeply moving and courageous novel of our times.

In this enthralling and thought-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young actress, is lured into 'the theatre of the real' by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist. THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL is a thrilling, deeply moving and courageous novel of our times.ReviewPraise for The Constant Gardener -- : 'The master storyteller...has lost none of his cunning' -- A. N. Wilson, Daily Mail 'The book breathes life, anger and excitement' -- Nigel Williams, Observer 'A cracking thriller' -- Economist 'Nobody writing today manipulates suspense better. Nobody constructs a more tantalisingly complex plot ... essential reading' -- Chris Woodhead, Sunday Telegraph About the AuthorJohn le Carre was born in 1931. He attended the universities of Bern and Oxford and later taught at Eton. He spent five years in the British Secret Service.

The Cold War is over. The rules of the spying game have changed. But to train new spies for this uncertain future, one must first show them the past. Enter the man called Ned, the loyal and shrewd veteran of the Circus. With the inspiration of his inscrutable mentor George Smiley, Ned thrills all as he recounts forty exhilarating years of Cold War espionage across Europe and the Far East .To train new spies for an uncertain future, they must be shown the past. With the inspiration of his inscrutable mentor George Smiley, a veteran recounts 40 exhilarating years of Cold War espionage across Europe and the Far East. "A grand summation of all John LeCarre's themes."--New York Times.