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Tessa Quayle, moglie di un diplomatico inglese appassionato di giardinaggio, viene trovata selvaggiamente uccisa sulle rive del lago Turkana in Kenya. Perché Tessa era là? Il suo omicidio è da legarsi alla sua ossessiva presenza in un ospedale di Nairobi, dove in circostanze misteriose una povera indigena aveva trovato la morte? Nel contemplare il corpo decomposto dal caldo della bellissima moglie, qualcosa si spezza nell'animo di Justin Quayle, un marito che solo ora inizia a scoprire che nulla sapeva di Tessa.

Una obra maestra sobre la corrupción financieraPerry y Gail, una joven pareja inglesa muy enamorada, deciden disfrutar de unas inolvidables vacaciones en la isla caribeña de Antigua. Sin embargo, el encanto del lugar empieza a desaparecer cuando Dima, el propietario del complejo turistico donde se hospedan, entra en sus vidas. Este mafioso ruso, diestro en el blanqueo de dinero, les pide que actuen como intermediarios con el gobierno britanico.Dima quiere intercambiar asilo politico para el y toda su familia a cambio de informacion sobre el blanqueo de dinero que realizan bancos europeos. Esta dispuesto a desenmascarar a todos los implicados, sus compañeros mafiosos, banqueros e incluso politicos britanicos. Sin darse cuenta, esta joven pareja se convertira en un titere dirigido por los servicios secretos, en cuyas manos esta el destino de todos.Le Carre en estado puro.El Pais

The first novel in John le Carré´s celebrated Karla trilogy, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a heart-stopping tale of international intrigue. With a cast that includes Gary Oldman as Smiley and Acade

Alec Leamas, el antiguo responsable del espionaje inglés en Alemania Oriental, tiene una cuenta casi personal que saldar con sus viejos rivales.

In John le Carre's electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world. 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. "If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carre's latest thriller". (Evening Standard). "Few recent plays have had dialogue as good, and few recent literary novels can boast a set of characters so vividly imagined. Our Kind of Traitor is a teasing, beguiling, masterly performance". (Sunday Times). John le Carre 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. His most recent novel, A Delicate Truth, is also published by Penguin. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.

New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love or pity and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fabric of John le Carre's fiercely compelling and current novel "A Most Wanted Man." 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 around 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 -- or safety. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Freres, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. Annabel, Issa and Brue form an unlikely alliance -- and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror," the rival spies of Germany, England and America converge upon the innocents. Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, "A Most Wanted Man" is a work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times.

John le Carre's A Delicate Truth is a furiously paced story of moral dilemma, bold action and unexpected love. Gibraltar, 2008. A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony. 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. Cornwall, UK, 2011. A disgraced Special Forces soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be - or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? Summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely observed by Probyn's beautiful daughter, Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and duty to his Service. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent? `When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carre ...they were a journey into the wider world...These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind`. (Aung San Suu Kyi). `One of those writers who will be read a century from now`. (Robert Harris). `If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carre's latest thriller`. (Evening Standard). John le Carre 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. His recent novels include The Constant Gardener, A Most Wanted Man and Our Kind of Traitor.

Smiley y Karla, los dos brillantes espías de los dos lados de la Guerra Fría, se encuentran de nuevoGeorge Smiley se ha convertido en el jefe del maltrecho servicio secreto británico en el tiempo en que las traiciones de un agente doble sovietico han acribillado la red de espionaje. Smiley quiere venganza. Su metodo es el ataque, la presa es Karla, el escenario de la batalla es Hong Kong y el arma elegida es el honorable Jerry Westerby, el brazo oriental, amante apasionado y agente secreto experimentado y temerario. Y comienza el juego aterrador