- Actresses, Actresses in fiction, Intelligence officers in fiction, British in fiction
Charlie is a promiscuous, unsuccessful, left-wing English actress in her twenties, searching for commitment. We meet her first with a group of acting kids, taking a holiday on the Greek island of Mykonos. Kurtz is an officer of Israeli intelligence, whose job is to stop the bombing of Jews in Europe. The Little Drummer Girl is a thrilling, deeply moving and courageous novel of our times.
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- Author
- John le Carré
- First published
- June 1, 1991
- Pages
- 572
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books, Thorndike Press, Bantam
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9785553672164
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“It was the Bad Godesberg incident that gave the proof, though the German authorities had no earthly means of knowing this.”
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, due to his strong disapproval of Brexit, he took out Irish citizenship, which was possible due to his having an Irish grandparent. Le Carré's third novel, *The Spy Who Came in from the Cold* (1963), became an
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