George Smiley has become acting Chief of the Circus, or rather what remains of it. For the credibility of the British Secret Service has been shattered by his unmasking of a traitor within. It is being starved of funds by Whitehall, and sidelined by its American cousins. Yet from the first he goes onto the attack. His belated coming of age, his bounding humanity striving to get out, his courage and his recognition of love, are set in mounting dramatic contrast to the ever-growing needs of the service that claims his allegiance.
At forty-eight, Tim Cranmer is a secret servant in premature retirement in deepest Somerset. His Cold War is fought and won, and he is free to devote himself to his stately manor house, his vineyard and his beautiful young mistress, Emma. And between the two men stands Emma, and an unresolved rivalry that dates all the way back to their shared boyhood at public school.
Larry disappears. So does Emma. In his pursuit of them, Tim himself becomes the quarry, raiding his own past like a thief as he follows the lovers into the moral minefield of their new allegiance. But as Tim advances into the lawless wilds of Moscow and then Southern Russia, we share with him also the dilemma of a dispossessed loyalist of our time, grappling with his left-over humanity.
Our Game is a novel of suspense in the great British tradition: now romantic, now tragic, now comic, gripping to the last page and always vastly entertaining. Yet, even more than that, it is a novel suffused with magic. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine.
These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind' Aung San Suu Kyi 'One of those writers who will be read a century from now' Robert Harris 'He can communicate emotion, from sweating fear to despairing love, with terse and compassionate conviction' Sunday Times on The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 'Return of the master.
Maria, a young woman who so far has lived a simple life, is about to have her whole world turned around. Upon getting a job at DEP Genetics, not only does she meet the man of her dreams, but she is asked to go on a trip for the company, to the land she was born in, yet had never seen before. Yet as excited as Maria is over this new job, an air of deceit shrouds the employee's of DEP. It's hard to believe that today's backroom mandarins have an equally fruity style of speech, or that they represent the dark heart of British privilege in quite the same way.
But despite or because of that, his younger characters don't always ring true. Perry is a conscience-ridden leftist, born in the late s, who teaches English at Oxford; Gail, his girlfriend, is a rising young barrister. Dispirited by his apathetic students, Perry decides to leave Oxford and do something more useful.
But first, thanks to another fortuitous inheritance and perhaps not altogether plausibly for a leftwing academic aged 30, he takes Gail on an upmarket tennis holiday in Antigua. AudioGO and GNM further disclaim liability for any injury or damage to your or any other person's computer relating to or resulting from downloading any audiobook in connection with this offer. AudioGO and GNM reserve the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, this offer with or without prior notice due to reasons outside their control including, without limitation, in the case of anticipated, suspected or actual fraud.
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Get free access to the library by create an account, fast download and ads free. We cannot guarantee that every book is in the library. Summary : Two young lovers treat themselves to a once-in-a-lifetime holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. He's an austere tutor at Oxford. She's a sparky rising London barrister. Their native Britain is floundering in debt.
On the second day of their holiday they encounter a rich, charismatic something Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula, wears a diamondencrusted Rolex watch, has a tattoo on the knuckle of his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. Britain is in the depths of recession.
A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment. Our Kind of Traitor is a teasing, beguiling, masterly performance' Sunday Times.
Summary : Britain is in the depths of recession. Summary : A covert counterterror operation code-named Wildlife is to be mounted on the Rock of Gibraltar.
The Brits on land, the American mercenaries by sea. There are whispers of private armies, bounty, dicey intelligence, corporate wars. The worlds of Toby Bell and Kit Probyn collide. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, at what point do these two good men become guilty bystanders? Summary : Smuggled into Hamburg, Issa, a young Russian man, forms an alliance with Annabel, a civil rights lawyer, and Tommy Brue, scion of a failing British bank, as they become victims of rival intelligence operations in the War on Terror.
But Salvo finds himself both hunter and prey when he stumbles into a carefully plotted swindle that will only further devastate his birthplace. Summary : This is an analysis of the first 10 post—Cold Warnovels of one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary fiction.
Summary : Charlie is a promiscuous, unsuccessful English actress in her twenties. Forced to play her most challenging role, Charlie is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist … and soon proves herself a double agent of the highest order.
Summary : The premier spy novelist of our time now gives us his largest and most engaging work. It is a novel that plumbs the essential nature of espionage itself as it interweaves the story of a secret international manhunt with the unfolding of a secret life—the life of a man of spectacular gifts, nursed on deceit, schooled in betrayal, incapable of love: a perfect spy.
The man is Magnus Pym, a senior partner in 'the Firm' of British intelligence; a man whose boundless charm, energy, and wit so dazzle that no two people have ever perceived him in the same way; a man unknown, really, and perhaps unknowable, even to those closest to him. Especially now. The Brits on land, the American mercenaries by sea. A half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg form an unlikely alliance as the rival spies of Germany, England and Ame.
Charlie is a promiscuous, unsuccessful English actress in her twenties. Forced to play her most challenging role, Charlie is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist … and soon proves herself a double agent of the highest order. Magnus Pym, Britain's premier spy, has vanished -- sending intelligence communities on a frenzied international manhunt.
As the search plays out, so does a chain of clandestine operations surfacing in Washington, Vienna, Prague, London, and Berlin. But the most powerful drama of all comes from exploring Pym's background -- his education as a spy, and the spectacular motives and mentors who transformed him into a master of guile and deception.
At any cost. Tessa Quayle-young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin-is gruesomely murdered in northern Kenya.
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