A Most Wanted Man

Le Carre, John

ISBN 10: 0743579232 ISBN 13: 9780743579230

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2008

Synopsis

Smuggled into Hamburg, Issa, a young Russian man carrying a large amount of cash and claiming to be a devout Muslim, forms an unlikely alliance with Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and Tommy Brue, a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank, as they become victims of rival intelligence operations in the War on Terror. Simultaneous.

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Review:

'Astounding, nearly perfect ... beautifully paced, awesomely crafted ... desperately readable.' (San Francisco Chronicle)

'Intricately plotted, beautifully written, propulsive, morally engaged, but timely as today's headlines ... The protagonists are brilliantly drawn.' (Los Angeles Times)

'An instant classic ... A provocative and incendiary ending that only le Carré, the master, can pull off.' (USA Today)

'le Carré continues to be the world’s most reliable witness to the vicissitudes of international paranoia; his books conceive of a Western world that has a costly obsession with its possible enemies; he shows you this world’s secret missions; its botched jobs, its manifold attempts to thwart the corrupting and sometimes terrifying idealism of others, while keeping the reader close to the exact lineaments of the way we live now.' (New York Review of Books)

Book Description:

The fiction event of the autumn from 'the essential voice of our time' -Daily Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0743579232
• ISBN 13: 9780743579230
• Binding: Audio CD