- Spies, Fiction, English Spy stories, Spies in fiction
Individual greed takes the place of old world rivalries of great nations. Inside look at the international cartel of illegal arms dealers, and drug smugglers. Lays forth an understanding of paradoxes in our unquestioning perceptions between evil and virtue! Heavy reading at best; smashing thoughts!
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- John le Carré
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Ullstein Taschenbuchvlg., Random House Audio, Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Editions
- 39
- Language
- Chinese, German, English
- ISBN
- 9781844569144
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“ON A SNOW-SWEPT January evening of 1991, Jonathan Pine, the English night manager of the Hotel Meister Palace in Zurich, forsook his office behind the reception desk and, in the grip of feelings he had not known before, took up his position in the lobby as a prelude to extending his hotel's welcome to a distinguished late arrival.”
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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