Single & Single
The high-stakes world of international finance turns deadly as a lawyer from a London banking house is murdered, a London merchant banker vanishes, a Russian freighter is intercepted in the Black Sea, and a children's magician discovers an unexplained fortune in his daughter's trust fund. Simultaneous.
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Those who have followed le Carré's remarkable progress as writer (from the lean and brilliantly-plotted The Spy Who Came in from the Cold onwards) will be aware that the end of the Cold War gave the author no pause at all; while other espionage writers were floundering around for a subject, le Carré was able to deal with the dangerous realities of the modern world in precisely the same compulsive way he had always done. If some of the recent novels have, nevertheless, not had quite the elegant and commanding power of his best work, it's refreshing to welcome this new book as one of his most assured in years.
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A corporate lawyer is brutally killed on a hillside in Turkey, and the reader is transported into a disparate but compelling series of events, taking us from a Devon seaside resort through the lethal world of the Russian Mafiosi to a tense climax in the High Caucasus. Of course, for le Carré character is every bit as important as plot: his protagonist, concealing his past security work by working as a children's magician, has failings as a father (which match the problems he had with his own father). In terms of the narrative, as so often before, the author has us at his command from the very first page.--Barry Forshaw
'An adventure that takes us to the ends of the earth via the rich but often barren landscape of the human heart.' (The Times)
'Single & Single manages to make some serious points about history amid a riot of whoops and skips, genre flourishes and delighted winks to the gallery.' (M.J. Hyland)
'The logical connection of these events and more is one of the many pleasures of this story of love, deceit, family and the triumph of humanity.' (Audible.com)
'Single & Single manages to make some serious points about history amid a riot of whoops and skips, genre flourishes and delighted winks to the gallery.' (M.J. Hyland)
'The logical connection of these events and more is one of the many pleasures of this story of love, deceit, family and the triumph of humanity.' (Audible.com)
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster Audioworks
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0671043900
- ISBN 13 9780671043902
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