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Recorded Books, Inc
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English
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New York Times best-selling author John le CarrE earned a reputation as a master of the spy thriller with works such as Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy. Le CarrE's first novel to feature the iconic character George Smiley, Call for the Dead follows the Circus agent as he interviews Samuel Fennan, an accused member of the Communist Party. Though Smiley finds no evidence against Fennan, the man is found dead the next day from an apparent suicide. Looking...
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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Language
English
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George Smiley, retired from the world of spies and treachery, is summoned by an old friend to help with a small problem: at the exclusive school where Smiley's friend teaches it seems there's been a murder. Frightfully embarrassing, of course. Perhaps George could quietly look into the matter? Once more, Smiley is up to his elbows in spies and treachery, of a different sort.
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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
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English
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For over 50 years, New York Times best-selling author John le Carré has been the standard bearer for espionage novels. A classic Cold War spy story, The Looking Glass War transports audiences to Eastern Europe, where rumors abound that Russian missiles are being positioned along the German border. Desperate, and lacking the manpower to get to the truth, The Department enlists the aid of former radio operator Fred Leiser—sending
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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Language
English
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Featuring George Smiley, The Honourable Schoolboy is the second installment in the renowned Karla Trilogy, the follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which was the inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, and Tom Hardy. As the fall of Saigon looms, master spy George Smiley must outmaneuver his Soviet counterpart on a battlefield that neither can afford to
...5) Our game
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Publisher
Knopf
Language
English
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Tim Cranmer, retired secret servant and Larry Pettifer, bored radical don, philanderer and for 20 years Tim's mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat, have an unresolved rivalry that dates back decades. They follow each other to Moscow and then Southern Russia.
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Series
George Smiley volume Book 3
Language
English
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A veteran spy wants to "come in from the cold" to retirement. He undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends defection and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.
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Series
George Smiley volume Book 5
Publisher
Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
Language
English
Description
John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.
A modern masterpiece in which le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with...
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George Smiley volume Book 8
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Language
English
Description
The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence' the Circus' all his adult life. Now, approaching the end of his career, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years. Ned illuminates the brave past of the legendary George Smiley, his hero and mentor who, in one unforgettable evening, gives back to him the dangerous...
13) A delicate truth
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Publisher
Viking, published by the Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Language
English
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A Delicate Truth opens in 2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal private...
14) A perfect spy
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Publisher
Knopf
Language
English
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Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on: for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a secret agent. Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets.
15) The Russia house
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Distributed by Random House
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English
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British Intelligence recruits a derelict, saxophone-playing publisher who visits the Moscow Book Fair and stumbles across the hottest Soviet defense secrets in years.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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Le Carre's Panama - the young country of 2.5 million souls which, on December 31, 1999, will gain full control of the Panama Canal- is a Casablanca without heroes, a hotbed of drugs, laundered money and corruption.
Seldom has the weight of global politics descended so heavily on such a tiny and unprepared nation. And seldom has the hidden eye of British Intelligence selected such an unlikely champion as Harry Pendel - a charmer, a dreamer, an evader,...
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Publisher
Knopf
Language
English
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Enter the new world of espionage, where the skills forged by generations of spies during the darkest days of the Cold War are put to even more terrifying use. Penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who have risen to unthinkable power and wealth. The sinister master of them all is an untouchable Englishman named Roper, the charming, unstoppable ruler of a corrupt world all his own.
Slipping into this maze of peril is...
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English
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Set in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down a dangerous path. In his plot and characterization le Carré is as thrilling as ever and in the way he writes about our times he proves himself, once again, to be the greatest chronicler of our age.
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English
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Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George...
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English
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The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carré, the legendary author of A Legacy of Spies.
“Recounted with the storytelling élan of a master raconteur—by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carré, the legendary author of A Legacy of Spies.
“Recounted with the storytelling élan of a master raconteur—by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
From...