At 48, Tim Cranmer is a secret servant in retirement, free to devote himself to his manor house, his vineyard and his young mistress, Emma. But a rival in love disappears with Emma, and Tim sets off
John le Carrs second novel is an ingenious puzzle featuring his best-loved character George Smiley. Now available in a collectors hardback edition.Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. Smiley knows that Stella feared her husband would murder her, but as he probes further beneath Carnes respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. In his second George Smiley novel, le Carr moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English institution. The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery, with Smiley as master detective.THE SECOND GEORGE SMILEY NOVELBeautifully intelligent, satiric and witty Daily Telegraph
Splendid ... le Carr shows how endowed he is with the gift of storytelling The TimesAldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant family, drives a safe, expensive car and wears luxurious clothes. But his soothing existence is upended when he meets Shamus and Helen - a dazzling, bohemian couple who are everything he is not. As he is drawn into their reckless and unpredictable orbit, all that Cassidy thought he understood about his orderly life begins to unravel.Told with le Carrs lacerating wit and penetrating observation, The Naive and Sentimental Lover is an acerbic satire of middle-class hypocrisies.Le Carr is the equal of any novelist now writing Guardian
The eighth of John le Carrs espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, The Secret Pilgrim is a gripping feat of narrative brilliance.The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this late Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers.Consummate and enthrallingObserver
.Despres de la guerra de l`Iraq, l`angles Ted Mundy, fill d`un soldat britànic de les antigues colonies i escriptor fracassat reconvertit en guia turístic a Baviera, veu com retorna el seu passat en
Tim Crammer, espía prematuramente retirado tras el fin de la Guerra Fría, vive dedicado a sus viñas y a Emma, su joven amante. Pero, cierto día, ella desaparece, y también lo hace Larry Pettifer, el agente doble que trabajaba para Crammer, igualmente retirado. A partir de este arranque, se teje una compleja incertidumbre de persecuciones múltiples que, con insuperable tensión narrativa, formarán la trama de esta magnífica novela que habla de amor, de amistad y de celos. Pero Nuestro juego, en cuyo trasfondo están las tensiones de Chechenia, es, además, una reflexión de John le Carré sobre uno de los grandes interrogantes de nuestro tiempo: ¿Existen todavía grandes causas por las que luchar? ¿Queda margen para algún tipo de idealismo tras el supuesto «final de la historia»?
Tessa Quayle, the lovely wife of a member of the British Foreign Service based in Nairobi, is killed in a mysterious car accident near a lake in Kenya. Tessa was an activist who had recently come across sensitive documents exposing an international corporate conspiracy to exploit Kenya's poor. Tessa's husband, Justin, has been a mild-mannered official for decades, but when he decides to get to the bottom of Tessa's death, he discovers that he has an unexpected capacity to go against the grain. He'll need it, as his journey to the truth takes him through many levels of corporate and diplomatic intrigue in Kenya, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, and Canada. This novel by master of the spy thriller John Le Carre was adapted into a 2005 film starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz.
Amanece en Londres, George Smiley, antiguo director de Circus, un grupo selecto de espías del Servicio Secreto británico, se levanta de su solitaria cama de jubilado con la noticia del asesinato de uno de sus antiguos agentes. Obligado a volver al servicio activo, Smiley irá contactando con el resto de los miembros de Circus -desconocidos en tierra de nadie- a través de París, Londres, Alemania y Suiza para preparar el inevitable duelo final en el Berlín de la Guerra Fría, con su entorno enemigo, el agente del KGB, Karla.
John le Carré's international bestseller - now a major film from the director of CITY OF GOD, starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz.
Frightening, heartbreaking and exquisitely calibrated, THE
