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George Smiley, były szef brytyjskiego wywiadu i najlepszy oficer operacyjny, odchodzi z czynnej służby. Zamierza prowadzić spokojne życie i pisać książkę. Pewnej nocy budzi go telefon - w jednym z londyńskich park�w znaleziono ciało mężczyzny. Zamordowany był agentem brytyjskiego wywiadu. Dla Smileya oznacza to początek najtrudniejszej sprawy w jego szpiegowskiej karierze. Musi zająć się tajną operacją; nie po to jednak, by nią pokierować, lecz by zatrzeć wszelkie ślady jej istnienia....

W mrożącej krew w żyłach opowieści o skorumpowanej agencji wywiadu, transakcjach wartych miliardy dolar�w i prawdzie o brutalnym biznesie handlu bronią John le Carr� tworzy klaustrofobiczny świat, w kt�rym nikomu nie wolno ufać.Schyłek zimnej wojny jest początkiem nowej ery szpiegostwa. Z drugiej strony pr�żnia władzy powstała po rozpadzie Związku Radzieckiego pozwoliła przemytnikom broni i narkotyk�w zdobyć coraz większe wpływy i bogactwo.Jednym z najbardziej okrutnych przedstawicieli tej grupy jest Richard Onslow Roper, czarujący i bezwzględny Anglik, handlarz bronią, kt�rego brudne interesy są nie do wytropienia.�

Najwyższymi sferami rządowymi w Wielkiej Brytanii wstrząsa skandal: któryś z najlepszych angielskich szpiegów jest „kretem”, czyli podwójnym agentem. Misję rozpracowania zdrajcy otrzymuje George Smiley, od niedawna na emeryturze. To najtrudniejsze zadanie jego życia. Nie dość, że „kreta” musi odnaleźć wśród swoich, to jeszcze bez podsłuchów i przesłuchań. Poszukiwany jest jego wieloletnim wrogiem – mózgiem radzieckiego wywiadu...

Zimna wojna się skończyła. Ned zostaje zdegradowany i trafia do akademii, gdzie szkoli młodych brytyjskich agent�w wywiad�w. Prosi swojego dawnego mentora, George?a Smileya, by opowiedział adeptom prawdę, bez cenzury i przekłamań. To może być ich jedyna szansy, by ją poznać. Realizując powierzone mu zadanie, Ned przypomina sobie o własnych bolesnych triumfach i sromotnych klęskach podczas misji na Zachodnich Wyspach Szkocji, w Hamburgu, Izraelu, Kambodży i wielu innych miejscach. Sam zadaje sobie pytanie: Czy postępował dobrze? Jaki to wywarło na niego wpływ? Jaka przyszłość czeka agent�w wywiadu? W ostatniej powieście ze Smileyem w roli gł�wnej, wielki szpieg ukazuje swoją ludzką twarz i udziela nieoczekiwanych odpowiedzi.

Wiosna 2009 roku. Na wyspie Antigua. Rosyjski oligarcha, zagrożony przez rywali wspieranych przez Kreml, postanawia ujawnić swoją intymną wiedzę o międzynarodowych szlakach prania mafijnych pieniędzy w zamian za ochronę służb specjalnych Jej Królewskiej Mości oraz możliwość osiedlenia się z rodziną w Anglii. Oligarcha, przedstawiony w sposób, który przynajmniej częściowo budzi sympatię czytelnika, mobilizuje w tym celu młodą brytyjską parę spędzającą wakacje na wyspie, która ma go skontaktować z tymi służbami. Pasja do tenisa zbliża ich do siebie. Od karaibskiej wyspy, przez finał Federer/Söderling na Roland Garros, po zaciszne zakątki banków szwajcarskich i romantyczne krajobrazy Oberlandu berneńskiego, narracja pozwala autorowi z pasją ukazać zarówno zakres stawki ekonomicznej, jak i dwulicowość aktorów, których cynizm zdaje się być równy chciwości czy pragnieniu władzy. „Słowo dano ludziom, aby ukrywali swoje myśli,” mówił Talleyrand. Użycie słowa tworzy alienację u postaci. Prowadzi do walki między naiwnymi, którzy doświadczają tej alienacji, a cynikami, którzy ją wykorzystują na swoją korzyść. Wojna jest obecna na początku i na końcu. I zawsze miażdży najsłabszych.

Redaktor naczelna „Głosu Chrześcijańskiego”, Alsa Brimley, otrzymuje od jednej ze stałych czytelniczek przerażający list: Nie jestem obłąkana i mam pewność, że mój mąż próbuje mnie zabić. Jednak wiadomość przychodzi za późno - jego autorka, żona nauczyciela w jednej z renomowanych brytyjskich szkół prywatnych, zostaje zamordowana. Emerytowany pracownik brytyjskich służb specjalnych i przyjaciel Alsy, George Smiley, próbuje rozwiązać zagadkę śmierci pani Rode. W toku śledztwa odkrywa niechlubne epizody w historii szacownej instytucji…

W Hamburgu pojawia się przez „zieloną granicę” wychudzony i zmaltretowany młody muzułmanin Issa. Jest byłym pensjonariuszem więzień rosyjskich i tureckich, synem pułkownika Armii Czerwonej, Karpowa, i porwanej przez niego Czeczenki, zabitej po urodzeniu przez krewnych za „zhańbienie rodu”. Znajduje opiekę u Leili, tureckiej wdowy mieszkającej na stałe w Niemczech, i jej syna, boksera Melika. Jego gospodarze sprowadzają do niego młodą i piękną panią adwokat z dobroczynnej agencji zajmującej się legalnymi i nielegalnymi imigrantami, Annabel Richter. Przyjazd Issy natychmiast budzi zainteresowanie i niepokój – najpierw nowej jednostki kontrwywiadu niemieckiego, kierowanej przez sprawnego idealistę i weterana zimnej wojny Günthera Bachmanna, oraz niemal równocześnie wywiadu brytyjskiego. I jedna, i druga instytucja oczywiście podejrzewa Issę o knucie straszliwych, terrorystycznych planów. Najnowsza powieść le Carrégo to potwierdzenie, że ten weteran nie traci kontaktu z problemami trzymającymi w napięciu cały świat. Jego dialogi są wciąż ostre, rytmiczne i dowcipne, czyniąc z „Bardzo poszukiwanego człowieka” jedną z najbardziej wyrafinowanych powieściowych reakcji na wojnę z terrorem.

Spionroman om den engelske agent Barley Blair, der skal forsøge at finde ud af, hvordan nogle militære hemmeligheder er blevet smuglet ud af det perestrojka-prægede Moskva

A box set of John le Carré's exceptional and thrilling first five novels, collected together for the first Call for the DeadA Murder of QualityThe Spy Who Came in from the ColdThe Looking Glass WarA Small Town in Germany

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story. Kim Philby, a brilliant and charming man, rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the Cold War while secretly working for the enemy. His best friend, Nicholas Elliott, also an MI6 officer, believed he knew Philby well. They shared schools, clubs, and wartime experiences, making it unthinkable for Elliott to suspect Philby of being a communist spy bent on subverting Western values. Yet, Philby was betraying his friend, relaying every word Elliott spoke back to Moscow. In America, Philby also befriended James Jesus Angleton, the head of CIA counterintelligence, whose unwitting disclosures helped Philby undermine Anglo-American spy operations for twenty years, leading to the downfall of countless operatives. As suspicion mounted, Philby resorted to greater lies to maintain his cover, with Elliott and Angleton remaining loyal until it was too late. The devastating truth of his betrayal had profound consequences for both men and the intelligence services left crippled by his actions. Told with heart-pounding suspense and psychological insight, this work is based on personal papers and never-before-seen British intelligence files, marking a high-water mark in Cold War history.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.' JOHN LE CARR Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf H ss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. Lieutenant Hanns Alexander is one of the lead investigators, Rudolf H ss his most elusive target. In this book Thomas Harding reveals for the very first time the full account of H ss' capture. Moving from the Middle-Eastern campaigns of the First World War to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s, to the horror of the concentration camps and the trials in Belsen and Nuremberg, Hanns and Rudolf tells the story of two German men whose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way.

Three more great ones from this incomparable international bestseller who is regarded by many as the father of the spy novel. This hardcover trilogy features three of the masters most exciting and best-selling stories: The Russia House, The Secret Pilgrim. and A Perfect Spy. A perfect set-up for his millions of fans.

This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centres on Lt Col John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America's failures & disillusionment in SE Asia. A field adviser to the army when US involvement was just beginning, he quickly became appalled at the corruption of the S. Vietnamese regime, their incompetence in fighting the Communists & their brutal alienation of their own people. Finding his superiors too blinded by political lies to understand the war was being thrown away, he secretly briefed reporters on what was really happening. One of those reporters was Neil Sheehan.--Amazon (edited) Neil Sheehan was a Vietnam War correspondent for United Press International & the NY Times & won a number of awards for reporting. In 1971 he obtained the Pentagon Papers, which brought the Times the Pulitzer gold medal for meritorious public service. A Bright Shining Lie won the National Book Award & the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction. He lives in Washington DC. Maps The funeral Going to war Antecedents to a confrontation The Battle of Ap Bac Taking on the system Antecedents to the man A second time around John Vann stays Acknowledgments Interviews Documents Source Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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'The spy ... ': The story of a perilous assignment for the agent who wants to desperately end his career of espionage. 'A small town ... ': Alan Turner, London's security officer, is sent to Bonn to find a missing man and files as Germany's past, present, and future threaten to collide in a nightmare of violence. 'The looking glass war': Uncertain evidence suggests Soviet missiles being put in place close to the German border, while vital film has gone missing and a courier is dead.

"An archive of letters written by the late John le Carré, giving readers access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our time The never-before-seen correspondance of John le Carré, one of the most important novelists of our generation, are collected in this beautiful volume. During his lifetime, le Carré wrote numerous letters to writers, spies, politicians, artists, actors and public figures. This collection is a treasure trove, revealing the late author's humour, generosity, and wit--a side of him many readers have not previously seen"--Publisher's description

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. 'An exciting story, excitingly told' Observer

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater good. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own story, John le CarrU has given us a novel of superb and enduring quality.

"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 the reality.' The Pigeon Tunnel, John le CarrU's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret sharers' - the men and women who inspired some of his most enthralling novels. From terrifying meetings with Yasser Arafat in war-torn Beirut to brilliantly observed encounters with the great figures of 20th century film, from Stanley Kubrick to Alec Guinness. The reader is swept along not just by the chilling winds of the Cold War or by the author's frightening journeys into places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the author's inimitable voice. In this astonishing work we see our world, both public and private, through the eyes of one of the world's greatest writers."

Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on: for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a secret agent. Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets. From the age of 17, he has been controlled by two mentors.

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.

A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway Set in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in the George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice is an extraordinary, thrilling return to the world of spy fiction's greatest writer, John le Carré. It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only on a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumour in Whitehall - unconfirmed and a little scandalous - that George Smiley might almost be happy. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Susanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead. But in his absence the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley will soon find himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come, and strike at the heart of his greatest enemy...

Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Scottish Herald 'The beauty of the prose is in contrast with the horror anticipated by this superbly subtle narrative' Kapka KassabovaIn 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French ethnologist Fran-ois Bizot is captured by the Khmer Rouge. Accused of being an agent of 'American imperialism', he is chained and imprisoned. His captor, Douch - later responsible for tens of thousands of deaths - interrogates him at length; after three months of torturous deliberation, during which his every word was weighed and his life hung in the balance, he was released. Four years later, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. Fran-ois Bizot became the official intermediary between the ruthless conqueror and the terrified refugees behind the gate of the French a ringside seat to one of history's most appalling genocides. Written thirty years later, Fran-ois Bizot's memoir of his horrific experiences in the 'killing fields' of Cambodia is, in the words of John le Carr-, a 'contemporary classic'.

A marvelously entertaining diary from one of the most distinguished--and beloved--actors of stage and screen. Revealing the octogenarian spryness of a civilized mind and a beguiling mixture of the meditative and the hedonistic, My Name Escapes Me offers a glimpse of the private side of Guinness's often very public life.

A counter-terrorist operation, code-named Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose- to capture and abduct a hight-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors- an ambitious Foreign Office minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom firend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far right. So delicate is the operation that even the minister's private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Three years later, 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 ('Kit') Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely observed by Kit's 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?

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the death, he begins his own investigation, meeting Fennan's widow to find out what led him to such desperation. On the very day Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined? Le Carré's first book, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring spy George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit. 'Intelligent, thrilling, surprising . . . makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard.' Sunday Telegraph 'Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense.' Observer The first George Smiley novel

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie. Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age- the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.

At forty-eight, Tim Cranmer is a retired secret servant living in rural England, enjoying his manor house, vineyard, and young mistress, Emma. However, his past looms large, embodied in Larry Pettifer, a bored radical don and Tim's former double agent during the Cold War. Their rivalry, rooted in their shared boyhood, resurfaces when both Larry and Emma mysteriously vanish. Tim is left to wonder if they have run off together or if Larry has ensnared Emma in a dangerous game. As he embarks on a search for them, Tim finds himself pursued by his former masters, turning the tables on his role as the hunter. He delves into his past, following Larry and Emma through the perilous terrain of their new alliance. As he navigates the moral complexities of post-Cold War Europe—through the remnants of England after Thatcher and the chaotic landscapes of Moscow and Southern Russia—Tim faces a profound dilemma. Stripped of his past and future, he grapples with his humanity as the values he once fought for begin to erode, and the specter of a reinvigorated Russian empire haunts the remnants of the Soviet dream. This narrative showcases John le Carré at his finest.

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The Department has faded since the war, effectively mothballed, without agents or resources. But now, with intelligence of a possible missile threat, it again has a mission. This is a chance to prove its influence to those at the Circus, like George Smiley, who think the Department's time has passed. The opportunity to reclaim former glory cannot be missed - even though it means putting men's lives at desperate risk on foreign soil. The Looking Glass War is a gripping story of the amorality of espionage - unflinching in its depiction of the men involved, who are as much full of vanity and fear as of selflessness and courage.

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.

ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours. The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies. Deriving its scale from A PERFECT SPY and its passion from THE CONSTANT GARDENER, Le Carré's new novel presents us with magical writing, characters to delight, and a spellbinding story that enchants even as it challenges.

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 unprecedented worldwide acclaim. At a small British trade fair in Moscow, a message of global importance is made up of three very fragile human links: a Soviet physicist (code name Bluebird) burdened with a secret knowledge; 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 source of the document. A magnificent story of love, betrayal, and courage, "The Russia House" catches history in the act.

The destruction of Atlanta is an iconic moment in American history it was the centerpiece of the hugely successful book and movie Gone with the Wind. But though the epic sieges of Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Berlin have all been explored in best-selling histories, the one great American example has been treated only cursorily as a footnote. Marc Wortman remedies that conspicuous absence in grand fashion with The Bonfire, an absorbing narrative history told through the points of view of key participants, both Confederate and Union.

"In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years--the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love."--

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.

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.

Le Carré's hero is Aldo Cassidy, "the nav̐e and sentimental lover," a tycoon caught frantically between two astonishing loves. Trapped with him are Shamus, a wild artist who carouses by day or night, and Helen, the artist's nakedly alluring wife. Who will wind up with whom is only one of the mysteries in a world founded upon spontaneity and feeling

A novelist wouldn't dare invent the story contained herein. That a son of the British establishment could, during a 30 year secret service career, be a Communist agent is too far-fetched for fiction. Here's the story of how Philby did it, of what he did & its consequences; of how he betrayed his country, service, friends & the class which nurtured, shaped & protected him.Authors' PrefaceIntroduction1. BeginningsThe man in Dzerzinsky SquareBoyhood of three spiesThe slave of GodThe Cambridge MarxistsCommitment in ViennaJoining the establishment2. PenetrationThe Spanish decorationThe phony warThe secret worldThe rise of Kim Philby3. ExploitationThe new enemyThe Volkov incidentThe priceless secretsThe Albanian subversion4. DownfallCrack-upGetawayThe secret trialA field agent?Philby's comebackEndgame in BeirutThrough the curtain

A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, <i>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy</i> begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart. It is now beyond a 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.

We are in a new arena of intrigue where the old rivalries of great nations have been suplanted by the ravages of individual greed. We are in a new world of espionage where the habits and rules forged by past generations of spies are put to more shocking use. We are inside the international cartel of illegal arms dealers and drug smugglers, now rising to unheard-of power under the command of men whose ruthlessness is matched only by their limitless hunger for unlimited wealth. I is this worlds, in all its brilliant corruption, that John le Carré now opens up for us. His peerless gifts -- hismastery of storytelling and characterization -- have never been more stuningly empoyed. In The Night Manager, the hypnotic narrative is charged by a luminous understanding of the paradoxes implicit in our perceptions of evildoing and virtue.John le Carré was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Berne and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, his third book, secured him a worldwide reputation. He divides his time between England and the Continent.

In den schattigen Winkeln von Whitehall und Washington operiert eine unheilige Allianz zwischen der Geheimdienstgemeinschaft und dem geheimen Waffenhandel. Jonathan Pine ist bereit, sich im Kampf gegen dieses ultimative Herz der Dunkelheit zu behaupten. Seine Mission führt ihn von den Klippen im Westen Cornwalls über Nord-Quebec und die Karibik bis in die Dschungel des nach Noriega besetzten Panamas. Sein Ziel ist der schlimmste Mensch der Welt.

Po románu Jeden musí z kola ven je Ctihodný školáček druhým počinem autorovy volné trilogie spojené tajemným sovětským superšpionem „Karlou“... Je rok 1974 a George Smiley se snaží postavit britskou tajnou službu přezdívanou Cirkus znovu na nohy, poté co její pověst a síť kontaktů zničil dvojitý agent Bill Haydon. Úzký tým jeho spolupracovníků přijde na to, že v Hongkongu operuje vážený obchodník Drake Kao ve prospěch Karly a tím britské kolonii škodí; ale agenti objeví i to, že Drake má v rudé Číně bratra Nelsona, vysoce postaveného státního úředníka, a že se bratři mají v Hongkongu tajně setkat. O únos a vytěžení Nelsona usiluje i CIA, sice spolupracovník Britů, ale jen občasný a málo spolehlivý. Aby operace únosu proběhla úspěšně, Smiley najme spícího agenta Jerryho Westerbyho, jemuž se sice přezdívá „ctihodný školáček“, protože jako šlechtic vychodil ty nejlepší školy, ale jeho otec zbankrotoval. Jerry se tedy živí jako člověk na špinavou práci v nebezpečných situacích.

»Smiley ist John le Carrés beste Erfindung, eine der ganz großen Figuren der Literatur.« The Telegraph Nach seiner Niederlage an der Berliner Mauer hat George Smiley den britischen Geheimdienst verlassen. Das westliche Agentennetz liegt am Boden. Da läuft ein russischer Spion zu den Briten über, unter höchst ungewöhnlichen Umständen. Und der Mann, den er eigentlich in London töten sollte, ist verschwunden. Smiley lässt sich nicht lange bitten und übernimmt die Befragung einer Kollegin des Verschwundenen. Doch Moskaus Schatten sind länger geworden, und schon bald verfolgt Smiley wider besseres Wissen den Doppelspion, der für seine Niederlage an der Berliner Mauer verantwortlich war. Doch der ist ihm wie es scheint immer einen Schritt voraus. Brillante Neuerfindung eines Welterfolgs aus der Zeit des Kalten Krieges

Marie &#39;Missie&#39; Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler&#39;s Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as 1941. Before long, however, Missie became sickened by the nature of Nazi-rule.

Politickošpionážní román zavádí do Bonnu v r. 1968, kdy Velká Británie usiluje o vstup do EHS a hledá podporu u spolkové vlády. Napínavý příběh, v němž pracovník bezpečnostní služby britského zahraničního úřadu pátrá v Bonnu po zmizelém úředníku britského velvyslanectví a s ními po zmizelém tajném spisu. Kniha načrtává věrohodný obraz kariéristických a politicky krátkozrakých pracovníků britské diplomatické služby a podává svědectví o degradaci britské mezinárodní prestiže ve světě. Doslov napsal Jindřich Volek.

Una storia vera per John Le Carré. Un colloquio con una spia autentica, anche se anomala. Jean-Louis Jeanmaire, colonnello dell'esercito svizzero, durante gli anni Sessanta ha fornito ad un diplomatico russo informazioni sul sistema difensivo elvetico. E per questo è stato processato e condannato. Ma né la prigione né il tempo trascorso hanno modificato l'opinione che Jeanmaire ha di sé e del suo operato: non è stato tradimento, ma atto di dissuasione. Per scoraggiare ogni tentativo di invasione da parte sovietica.

Le Carré ricostruisce la curiosa, spesso enigmatica personalità del proprio padre, figura di avventuriero protagonista di mille espedienti e trovate allo scopo di vivere la propria esistenza come un romanzo. Il flusso dei ricordi getta così una luce nuova, spesso commovente, sulla famiglia e sull'identità di uno scrittore contemporaneo, che ha vissuto in prima persona mille spunti dei suoi romanzi di spionaggio

In "Sein letztes Meisterwerk" enthüllt John le Carré in einer faszinierenden Sammlung von Briefen seine Persönlichkeit und Gedanken. An Leser, Prominente und Familie gerichtet, zeigt er sich als spielerischer, intelligenter und eloquenter Mensch. Die Briefe bieten einen einzigartigen Einblick in sein Leben und Werk.

Eine Explosion im Diplomatenviertel zerstört die Villa des israelischen Arbeitsattachés und fordert drei Todesopfer. Ein weiterer grausamer Anschlag in einer Reihe europaweiter Attentate, zu denen sich die Terrorgruppe Palästinensische Agonie bekennt. Für den endgültigen Vernichtungsschlag gegen die Terroristen braucht der israelische Meisterspion Schulmann die Hilfe von Charlie, einer jungen englischen Schauspielerin. Als sie einwilligt, einen mit Sprengstoff beladenen Mercedes durch Jugoslawien zu fahren, gibt es für sie kein Zurück mehr. Um zu überleben, wird sie die Rolle ihres Lebens spielen müssen. Große TV Doku "Der Taubentunnel" ab 20. Oktober 2023 auf AppleTV+

Известие о самоубийстве чиновника министерства иностранных дел Семюэла Фенна озадочило Джорджа Смайли. Ведь у Фенна не было причин добровольно расстаться с жизнью. Тогда действительно ли это было самоубийство? Возможно, Фенна просто убрали? Но кто и почему? Смайли не принимает всерьез просьбу своей давней приятельницы мисс Бримли защитить ее подругу Стеллу Роуд, заявляющую, что готова убить собственного мужа. Однако вскоре Стеллу действительно убивают, и Смайли вскоре мотивы преступления следует искать отнюдь не в семейных отношениях супругов…

George Smiley – Der Spion, der Geschichte schrieb Ein vom Moskauer Zentrum eingesetzter Maulwurf hat die höchsten Ränge des britischen Geheimdienstes infiltriert und ihn dabei fast zerstört. Der ehemalige Spionagechef George Smiley wird aus dem Ruhestand geholt, um den Verräter zur Strecke zu bringen. Aber wem kann er trauen? Ein raffiniertes Spiel der Identitäten beginnt – mit tragischem Ausgang. Ein Agententhriller der Weltklasse - neu übersetzt von Peter Torberg.

V detektivním románě z prostředí anglické soukromé školy, v příběhu zrcadlícím společenské přehrady mezi profesorským sborem a měšťanským prostředím, dojde k vraždě profesorovy manželky. Během pátrání po pachateli, v němž se vedle policie účastní i soukromý detektiv, dojde ještě k vraždě nepohodlného svědka. Příběh anglického autora, budovaný na spletitosti lidských charakterů, je završen překvapivým rozuzlením. Z anglického originálu A murder of quality, vydaného nakladatelstvím Penguin Books, London 1965, přeložila Anna van Dijková.

"Absolutt venner" tar oss med fra de siste årene av den kalde krigen og helt frem til Saddam Husseins siste dager ved makten i Irak. Ted Mundy er født i Pakistan, moren dør under fødselen og han vokser opp sammen med den fordrukne faren. Sammen med faren flytter han etter hvert til England og en kostskole han aldri finner seg helt til rette på. Den eneste han knytter seg til er tysklæreren, og tysk utvikler seg til å bli Teds spesialfelt. Han reiser til Berlin og blir kjent med den radikale Sasha, som kommer til å få stor innflytelse på livet hans. Sasha blir spion for vesten og Ted blir hans kontaktperson. Når muren faller, faller Teds liv i grus. Ingen har bruk for ham mer, kona har forlatt ham og han har et dårlig forhold til sønnen. 12 år senere er han etablert på nytt i Tyskland og jobber som guide i en historisk bygning. Sasha har tilbrakt de siste årene i Midt-Østen, og dukker opp igjen med et tilbud til Ted ? de to skal igjen utfordre samfunnet og gjøre opprør mot Europas og USAs imperialistiske fremferd.

Na een periode van interne problemen vormen geheime Russische geldtransacties in het Verre Oosten het begin voor een reeks nieuwe activiteiten van de Britse geheime dienst.