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Bruno Salvador (Salvo), einem brillanten und gefragten Dolmetscher, werden für einen zweitägigen Einsatz stolze 5.000 Pfund angeboten. Das Ziel des Einsatzes ist unbekannt, ebenso die Namen der Teilnehmer, für die Salvador auf einer internationalen Konferenz übersetzen muss. Ein spannendes Spiel mit unbekanntem Ausgang beginnt .... Salvo ist Sohn einer Afrikanerin und eines weißen Missionars. Als solcher hat er viele Sprachen und Dialekte perfekt beherrschen gelernt, doch in den besseren Kreisen auf der Insel stößt er oft auf Ablehnung. In ironisch gebrochener Ich-Erzählung beschreibt er die Erlebnisse bei der Konferenz auf einer Insel mitten in Europa. Dabei geht es um die Aufteilung der von Kriegen, Korruption und Stammesfehden geplagten Republik Kongo. Verhandlungsmasse sind Öl, Diamanten und andere Bodenschätze. Die internationalen Akteure schachern um Macht und Geld, und sie pflegen ihre Eitelkeiten. Salvo ist entsetzt ob der skrupellosen Kungelei und zugleich in einem persönlichen Konflikt: Seine Noch-Ehefrau, eine überdrehte Londoner Journalistin, nervt ihn mit ihren Eskapaden; die neu errungene Freundin ist -- natürlich -- Afrikanerin, jung, attraktiv und der afrikanischen Heimat verbunden. Altmeister John Le Carré beherrscht sein Handwerk noch immer: eine intelligente Story, einprägsame Figuren, Spannung, Witz und eine ausgeprägte Distanz zu den gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen, die er beschreibt. Gekonnt zeichnet der Autor ein ungeschöntes Bild einer fiktiven Welt, die der Wirklichkeit erschreckend nahe kommt. Nicht zuletzt dank eines immensen Rechercheaufwands gelingen ihm einprägsame Bilder von Politik und Gesellschaft, Land und Leuten, Sprachen, Sitten und Charakteren. Über 400 Seiten vermag er den Spannungsbogen zu halten. Und auf den Schluss darf der Leser besonders gespannt sein! --Hans Jürgensen, Literaturtest

A naive young interpreter stumbles into the heart of an outrageous British plot in the astonishing new novel by the master of the literary thriller. From Publishers Weekly 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.

Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission school in the East Congolese province of Kivu, and later at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome, Salvo is inspired by his mentor Brother Michael to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages of which, almost from birth, he has been an obsessive collector. Soon a rising star in his profession, he is courted by City corporations, hospitals, law courts, the Immigration services and -- inevitably -- the mushrooming overworld of British Intelligence. He is also courted -- and won -- by the all-white, Surrey-born Penelope, star reporter on one of our great national newspapers, whom with typical impulsiveness he promptly marries. Yet even as the story opens, a contrary and irresistible love is dawning in him. Despatched to a no-name island in the North Sea to attend a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, Salvo is obliged to interpret matters never intended for his re-awoken African conscience.

Issa, jeune musulman russe affamé, arrive clandestinement à Hambourg en pleine nuit, avec autour du cou une bourse renfermant 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 ?uvre 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.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic George Smiley novel by John le Carre, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. First published in 1979, this is the seventh of the eight books featuring John le Carré's celebrated spymaster George Smiley. When a Russian émigré is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, Smiley is called out of retirement to exorcise some Cold War ghosts from his clandestine past. What follows is Smiley the human being at his most vulnerable and Smiley the case officer at his most brilliant; and it takes to a thrilling conclusion his career-long, serpentine battle with his great rival and nemesis, the enigmatic and ruthless Russian spymaster Karla. A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic George Smiley novel by John le Carre, starring Simon Russell Beale smiley's people audio, smiley's people cd, le carre, le carre audio, le carre cd, simon russell beale, simon russell beale audio, simon russell beale cd, spy, thriller, double agent, karla trilogy, karla trilogy audio, karla trilogy cd, john le carre cd, john le carre audio, carre, mystery, suspense, crime, thriller

Um jovem russo com um sobretudo preto comprido e meio morto de fome é introduzido clandestinamente em Hamburgo pela calada da noite. Numa bolsa que usa pendurada ao pescoço esconde uma quantia improvável de dinheiro. É um muçulmano devoto. Mas será mesmo? Afirma chamar-se Issa. Annabel, uma jovem e idealista advogada alemã especializada em direitos humanos, decide salvar Issa da deportação, e depressa a sobrevivência daquele cliente se torna mais importante do que a sua própria carreira. Em busca do misterioso passado de Issa, Annabel enfrenta o incongruente Tommy Brue, o herdeiro de sessenta anos do Brue Frères, um banco britânico em declínio sediado em Hamburgo. Nasce um triângulo de amores impossíveis. Entretanto, pressentindo que vão desferir um tiro certeiro na pseudo Guerra contra o Terror, espiões de três nações convergem para pessoas inocentes. Comovente, compassivo e recheado de personagens que o leitor não quererá largar, Um Homem Muito Procurado está repleto de humor, apesar da tensão presente até à última, e emocionante, página. É igualmente uma obra com uma profunda humanidade e uma pertinência invulgar nos dias de hoje.

Leamas is finished. Every agent he ran in the field has been remorselessly hunted and killed. It is time to come home, to come in from the cold. But in the moral ambiguities of the Cold War, nothing is ever as it seems - particularly where George Smiley is involved. With its thrillingly effective atmosphere and lean, brilliant prose, John le Carré's breakthrough novel is a suspenseful masterpiece, and a gripping insight into the unforgiving ethics of espionage. With it, he changed the rules of the game, and was rocketed to worldwide fame.

John le Carré is the nom-de-plume of David Cornwell, who was a member of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 1964. He has written twenty-one novels that have been published in thirty-six languag

An English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking 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.

The unrivaled master of spy fiction returns with a taut and suspenseful of dirty money and dirtier politics.

A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Frères, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. A triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the so-called War on Terror, the spies of three nations converge upon the innocents. Poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A MOST WANTED MAN is alive with humour, yet prickles with tension until the last heart-stopping page. It is also a work of deep humanity, and uncommon relevance to our times. 'A formidably sophisticated work of fiction, full of energy, rage and great humour. All the qualities for which le Carré's fiction has been admired - his descriptive powers, his electrifying dialogue, his cynicism in the presence of corporate greed and government power - are visible in The Mission Song. That this great English novelist continues to produce work of this calibre with such frequency is simply astonishing.' 'One of the most sophisticated fictional responses to the war on terror yet published.' Guardian. 'A first-class novel about the most pressing moral and political concerns of our time.' Telegraph. 'le Carré is back on form in a cracking terror plot.'Daily Express. 'Wry, warm, compassionate.' The Times. 'This is bleak, brilliant, hypnotic stuff and yet another reason to count le Carré among this country's very finest contemporary writers. Unhesitatingly recommended.' Independent on Sunday . Spectator: 'Le Carré shows no sign of slowing up or losing touch.'