Bøger af John le Carre

From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston."I have visited bohemia and got away unscathed." Aldo Cassidy is an entrepreneurial genius. At thirty-nine, he dominates the baby pram market and rewards his success with a custom Bentley. But Aldo's bourgeois life is upended by a chance encounter with Shamus-a charismatic writer whose first and only novel blazoned across the firmament twenty years earlier. The two develop a passionate friendship that draws Aldo-smitten also with his new friend's luscious wife-into a life of reckless hedonism that threatens to consume them all. John le Carré's The Naïve and Sentimental Lover offers a dark and ribald send-up of both middle-class bohemian pretensions that will astonish and delight his many fans. With a foreword by the author.

"Thorndike Press large print basic series."

"A Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carrâe's own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness. Beginning with his 1940s childhood, it includes accounts of his National Service and his time at Oxford, and his days teaching the 'chinless, pointy-nosed gooseberry-eyed British lords' at Eton. It describes his entry into MI5 and the rise of the Iron Curtain, and the flowering of his career as a novelist in reaction to the building of the Berlin Wall. Through his letters we travel with him from the Second World War period to the immediate moment in which we live. At the heart of the collection is le Carrâe the writer: researching, creating, and editing, engaging with readers, publishers, filmmakers and actors, with politicians and public figures. We find le Carrâe writing to Sir Alec Guinness to persuade him to take on the role of George Smiley, and later arguing the immorality of the War on Terror with the chief of the German internal security service. What emerges is a portrait not only of the writer, or of the global intellectual, but, in his own words, of the very private, very passionate and very real man behind the name."--

"An archive of letters written by the late John le Carrâe, giving readers access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our time The never-before-seen correspondance of John le Carrâe, one of the most important novelists of our generation, are collected in this beautiful volume. During his lifetime, le Carrâe wrote numerous letters to writers, spies, politicians, artists, actors and public figures. This collection is a treasure trove, revealing the late author's humour, generosity, and wit--a side of him many readers have not previously seen"--

La canción de los misioneros es una crítica feroz a un mundo corrupto en el que la lealtad se puede comprar y la guerra es una oportunidad para saldar viejas cuentas.Bruno Salvador, Salvo para los amigos y enemigos, es el hijo de un misionero católico irlandés y de una congolesa. Educado en la escuela de la misión y más tarde en un santuario para niños, se ha convertido en un reconocido intérprete de lenguas africanas minoritarias. Reclutado por los servicios de inteligencia británicos, Salvo es enviado a una reunión secreta entre financieros occidentales y señores de la guerra congoleños en la que deberá interpretar asuntos que nunca deberían haber llegado a su renacida conciencia africana.

La novela póstuma del gran maestro de espías.Julian Lawndsley ha renunciado a su exigente empleo en la City de Londres para llevar una vida más sencilla como propietario de una librería en una pequeña ciudad costera. Sin embargo, un par de meses después de la inauguración, la tranquilidad de Julian se ve interrumpida por una visita: Edward Avon, un inmigrante polaco que vive en Silverview, la gran mansión a las afueras del pueblo, quien parece saber mucho sobre la familia de Julian y muestra un interés exagerado en el funcionamiento interno de su modesto negocio.Cuando aparece una carta en la puerta de un espía de alto rango en Londres advirtiéndole de una peligrosa filtración, las investigaciones lo llevarán a esta tranquila ciudad junto al mar...Una extraordinaria novela inédita sobre los deberes de un espía con su país y la moral privada.

"The Constant Gardener" is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle -- young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for Tessa's killers as well. A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carre portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. In "The Constant Gardener" he tells a compelling, complex story of a man elevated through tragedy, as Justin Quayle -- amateur gardener, aging widower, and ineffectual bureaucrat -- discovers his own natural resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.

Jonathan Pine ist der Nachtmanager eines Hotels in Ägypten. Wenn ihm geheime Informationen gezeigt werden, gibt er sie an einen Mann der britischen Regierung weiter. Aber die Dinge gehen schief, und die Frau, die er liebt, stirbt. Pine ist wütend und erklärt sich bereit, mit anderen zusammenzuarbeiten, um Roger Roper - den "schlimmsten Mann der Welt" - zu fangen.

The acclaimed novel featuring George Smiley, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseries The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies now yield to glasnost and perestroika. The killing shadows of the Cold War are flooded with light. The future is unfathomable. To train new spies for this uncertain future, one must show them the past. Enter the man called Ned, the loyal and shrewd veteran of the Circus. With the inspiration of his inscrutable mentor George Smiley, Ned thrills all as he recounts forty exhilarating years of Cold War espionage across Europe and the Far East-an electrifying, clandestine tour of honorable old knights and notorious traitors, triumph and failure, passion and hate, suspicion, sudden death, and old secrets that haunt us still. Praise for The Secret Pilgrim "Intriguing . . . magisterial . . . The many ingredients are skillfully marshaled. . . . Lucidly and elegantly controlled."-The New York Times Book Review "Scorching . . . fascinating . . . seductive . . . a dazzler."-Entertainment Weekly "Powerful . . . a highly absorbing tale."-Newsday "Extraordinary."-USA Today

Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement, the Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, The Times'A brilliant novel of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon' Evening Standard'Vintage le Carr . Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carr exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect' John Banville, GuardianPeter Guillam, former disciple of George Smiley in the British Secret Service, has long retired to Brittany when a letter arrives, summoning him to London. The reason? Cold War ghosts have come back to haunt him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of the Service are to be dissected by a generation with no memory of the Berlin Wall. Somebody must pay for innocent blood spilt in the name of the greater good . . .'Utterly engrossing and perfectly pitched. There is only one le Carr . Eloquent, subtle, sublimely paced' Daily Mail'Splendid, fast-paced, riveting' Andrew Marr, Sunday Times'Remarkable. Vintage John le Carr . It gives the reader, at long last, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 years. Like wine, le Carr 's writing has got richer with age. Don't wait for the paperback' The Times'Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He's in the first rank' Ian McEwan'One of those writers who will be read a century from now' Robert Harris

Rosinante har i mange år udgivet John le Carrés mange suveræne romaner, og det er nærliggende, at en af mesterens stærkeste spiontitler nu indtager sin plads i klassikerserien.En perfekt spion er fortællingen om spionen Magnus Pym fra hans barndom til slutningen på hans karriere som midaldrende. Hans far var en løgnhals, en pralhans og en plattenslager (som John le Carrés egen far) - i det hele taget færdedes han på den forkerte side af loven. Fra sønnens tidligste barndom involverede han ham i sine affærer, og Pym lærte at gøre alt for den far, han havde så svært ved at løsrive sig fra. Som studerende i Schweiz mødte Pym en anden person, der får stor indflydelse på hans liv, nemlig den tjekkiske flygtning, Axel. Da Pym begynder sin karriere i the British Secret Service, fører forholdet til Axel og de værdier, hans udviklede i sin barndom, Pym ud i en farlig blanding af forræderi og loyalitet.

FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOHN LE CARRÉ "This novel comprises some of the best work of an extremely gifted and perhaps under-regarded British crime novelist....What gave John Bingham his magic was something we look for in every writer, too often in vain: an absolute command of the internal landscape of his characters, acutely observed by a humane but wonderfully corrosive eye." Michael Sibley and John Prosset shared a history that dated back to their first years at boarding school, and so the news of Prosset's murder came as a great shock to his old friend -- especially because Sibley had been staying only the day before at Prosset's country house, where the body was found. When the police arrive to question him in connection with the murder, Sibley finds himself lying about his recent visit, and thus begins to reveal the true nature of a longstanding but volatile friendship, fraught with mutual deception and distrust. As he tells his version of the truth to the police -- and to the reader -- Sibley makes the first of many fateful mistakes and finds himself not only under suspicion, but a primary suspect in the investigation. Seen through the eyes of Sibley himself, My Name Is Michael Sibley is a mesmerizing account of murder, as the narrator purposefully attempts to elude the police and prove his innocence to the reader in the same breath.