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Andrew Osnard is an Old Etonian and spy. His secret mission in Panama is two-pronged: to keep an 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 thus far eluded him.
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Classical in form, cool, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- John le Carré
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 444
- Publisher
- ĖKSMO-PRESS, Random House Audio, New Media Spanish Language
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, Russian, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780679458135
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“IT WAS A perfectly ordinary Friday afternoon in tropical Panama until Andrew Osnard barged into Harry Pendel's shop asking to be measured for a suit.”
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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