CARRE JOHN. LE

(P/B) THE RUSSIA HOUSE
Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between, the beaut...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY
West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them, facing riots, Nazi secrets and the delicate machinations of an unstable Europe in the throes of the Cold War. As Turner gets closer to the truth of Harting's disappearance, he will discover...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

Η ΜΙΚΡΗ ΤΥΜΠΑΝΙΣΤΡΙΑ
Η Τσάρλι, μια επίδοξη ηθοποιός από την Αγγλία, περνάει ανέμελη τις διακοπές της στη Μύκονο όταν συναντά έναν γοητευτικό, μυστηριώδη άντρα. Ο Τζόσεφ όμως είναι πράκτορας των ισραηλινών μυστικών υπηρεσιών και θέλει να χρησιμοποιήσει την Τσάρλι για να παγιδέψουν τον ηγέτη της παλαιστινιακής τρομοκρατικής ομάδας που είναι υπεύθυνη για μια σειρά από θανατηφόρες βομβιστικές επιθέσεις. Έτσι, ξαφνικά, η νεαρή Αγγλίδα θα βρεθεί μπλεγμένη στην αδυσώπητη δίνη της τρομοκρατίας, να ερμηνεύει το ρόλο της ζωής της ως διπλή πράκτορας στο επικίνδυνο "θέατρ...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

Η ΣΗΡΑΓΓΑ ΤΩΝ ΠΕΡΙΣΤΕΡΙΩΝ
«Από τον μυστικό κόσμο που γνώρισα κάποτε προσπάθησα να φτιάξω ένα θέατρο για τους ευρύτερους κόσμους που κατοικούμε. Πρώτα έρχεται η φαντασία και μετά η έρευνα για την πραγματικότητα. Και ακολουθεί η επιστροφή στη φαντασία και στο γραφείο όπου κάθομαι αυτή τη στιγμή». Από τα χρόνια της θητείας του στις βρετανικές υπηρεσίες πληροφοριών κατά τη διάρκεια του Ψυχρού Πολέμου ως τη συγγραφική του σταδιοδρομία, που τον ταξίδεψε από τη σπαρασσόμενη από τον πόλεμο Καμπότζη μέχρι τη Βηρυτό τις παραμονές της ισραηλινής εισβολής του 1982 και τη Ρωσία...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

Η ΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΟΠΩΝ
Ο Πίτερ Γκουίλαμ, αφοσιωμένος συνάδελφος και μαθητής του Τζορτζ Σμάιλι, της Μυστικής Υπηρεσίας Πληροφοριών, γνωστής ως Σέρκους, έχει αποσυρθεί στο οικογενειακό του αγρόκτημα στη νότια ακτή της Βρετάνης, όταν ένα γράμμα από την παλιά του υπηρεσία τον καλεί στο Λονδίνο. Ο λόγος; Το παρελθόν του από την εποχή του Ψυχρού Πολέμου έχει γυρίσει να τον στοιχειώσει. Οι κατασκοπικές επιχειρήσεις συλλογής πληροφοριών, που κάποτε ήταν το καμάρι των μυστικών υπηρεσιών του Λονδίνου, θα εξεταστούν τώρα εξονυχιστικά από μια γενιά που δεν έχει καμία ανάμνη...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

ΕΝΑΣ ΕΝΤΙΜΟΣ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ
Ο Νατ, ένας σαρανταεφτάχρονος βετεράνος των βρετανικών μυστικών υπηρεσιών, πιστεύει ότι η καριέρα του ως χειριστή πρακτόρων έχει φτάσει στο τέλος της. Επιστρέφει στο Λονδίνο και στη σύζυγό του, την πολύπαθη Πρου. Όμως η ολοένα αυξανόμενη απειλή του Κέντρου Μόσχας αναγκάζει το Γραφείο να του αναθέσει μια τελευταία αποστολή: ο Νατ καλείται να αναλάβει τον παροπλισμένο υποσταθμό Καταφύγιο και τους γηραλέους κατασκόπους που τον στελεχώνουν. Η μόνη φωτεινή εξαίρεση στην ομάδα είναι η νεαρή Φλόρενς, που έχει βάλει στόχο έναν Ουκρανό ολιγάρχη με ...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

Ο ΕΝΤΙΜΟΤΑΤΟΣ ΜΑΘΗΤΗΣ
Η βρετανική μυστική υπηρεσία, το "Σέρκους",έχει καταποντιστεί μετά την αποκάλυψη πως ένα από τα βασικότερα στελέχη της ήταν "τυφλοπόντικας" των Σοβιετικών, και τώρα της δίνεται μια μοναδική ευκαιρία να αναστηθεί. Ο αρχηγός της Τζορτζ Σμάιλι, τυπικός μεσήλικας Εγγλέζος, παχύς και διοπτροφόρος, αναθέτει την αποστολή στον "εντιμότατο" Τζέρι Γουέστερμπι, άσημο δημοσιογράφο, αποτυχημένο συγγραφέα και περιστασιακό πράκτορα. Αυτός θα πρέπει να παγιδεύσει τον Ντρέικ Κο, μεγιστάνα και λαθρέμπορο οπίου του Χονγκ Κονγκ, παραλήπτη ενός αστρονομικού πο...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) OUR GAME
Le Carre's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama. The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry - dreamer, dissolute, philanderer and disloyal friend - has vanished, along with Tim's mistress. As their trail takes him to the lawless wilds of Russia and the North Caucasus, he is forced to question everything he stood for. Set in a fragmented, uncertain...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) AGENT RUNNING IN THE FIELD
Nat, a veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, thinks his years as an agent runner are over. But MI6 have other plans. To tackle the growing threat from Moscow Centre, Nat is put in charge of The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. His weekly badminton session with the young, introspective, Brexit-hating Ed, offers respite from the new job. But it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Nat down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. (From the publisher)...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

ΚΙ Ο ΚΛΗΡΟΣ ΕΠΕΣΕ ΣΤΟΝ ΣΜΑΙΛΙ
Ο Τζορτζ Σμάιλι, πρώην υπάλληλος της υπηρεσίας πληροφοριών, αναλαμβάνει να ξετρυπώσει έναν «Τυφλοπόντικα» που έχει φωλιάσει στα ανώτερα κλιμάκια της βρετανικής αντικατασκοπείας και πουλάει μυστικά στη Σοβιετική Ένωση. Για να τον ανακαλύψει, ο Σμάιλι αρχίζει ένα δύσκολο σκακιστικό παιχνίδι με τον Κάρλα, το Σοβιετικό ομόλογό του. Κινήσεις που στην αρχή φαντάζουν ασύνδετες μεταξύ τους στο τέλος θα συγκλίνουν και θα αποκαλύψουν την ταυτότητα του «Τυφλοπόντικα». Κι όλα αυτά μέσα σ' έναν αμείλικτο ψυχρό πόλεμο όπου δεν υπάρχουν καλοί και κακοί. ...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE NIGHT MANAGER
In The Night Manager, John le Carre's first post-Cold War novel, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers. At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. 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. In a ...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

ΜΙΑ ΕΥΑΙΣΘΗΤΗ ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ
Μια αντιτρομοκρατική επιχείρηση, με την κωδική ονομασία Άγρια Ζωή, οργανώνεται στην πιο πολύτιμη αποικία της Βρετανίας, το Γιβραλτάρ. Σκοπός της, να εντοπιστεί και να συλληφθεί ένας τζιχαντιστής που ετοιμάζεται να κάνει μια κολοσσιαία αγορά όπλων. Εγκέφαλοι της επιχείρησης, ένας φιλόδοξος υπουργός Εξωτερικών και ένας στενός του φίλος, ειδικός σε θέματα άμυνας και ασφάλειας. Η επιχείρηση θεωρείται τόσο ευαίσθητη, που ακόμη κι ο ιδιαίτερος γραμματέας του υπουργού, ο Τόμπι Μπελ, δε γνωρίζει τίποτε γι' αυτήν. Υποπτευόμενος ότι είναι σε εξέλιξη...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism. But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended, Leamas's mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have ...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) OUR KIND OF TRAITOR
Two young lovers find themselves in the darkening basement of an anonymous house in Bloomsbury. In the same room sit members of Britain's intelligence services. And they want information. The couple, Perry and Gail, have just returned from holiday in the Caribbean where they met the mysterious Dima, a Russian millionaire in fear for his life. The Russian thinks that only the unlikely figure of Perry can save him. Their meeting will propel Perry and Gail on a terrifying journey from London to Paris and on to a safe house deep in the Swiss A...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) A DELICATE TRUTH
A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Suspecting a disastrous conspiracy, Toby attempts to forestall it, but is promptly posted overseas. Three years on, summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn, ret...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE LOOKING GLASS WAR
When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border, it seems like the perfect opportunity to regain some political standing in the Intelligence market place. The Cold War is at its height and the Department is dying for a piece of the action. Swiftly becoming carried away by fear and pride, the Department and her officers send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany, armed only with some schoolboy training and his memories of the war. I...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE CONSTANT GARDENER
Tessa Quayle, a brilliant and beautiful young social activist, has been found brutally murdered by Lake Turkana in Nairobi. The rumours are that she was faithless, careless, but her husband Justin, a reserved, garden-loving British diplomat, refuses to believe them. As he sets out to discover what really happened to Tessa, he unearths a conspiracy more disturbing, and more deadly, than he could ever have imagined. A blistering expos? of global corruption, The Constant Gardener is also the moving portrayal of a man searching for justice for...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) SINGLE & SIGLE
Why was an English lawyer shot dead in Turkey by his firm's top client? How can a down-at-heel magician in Devon explain the vast fortune that has mysteriously appeared in his daughter's trust fund? With customs officer Nat Brock on the trail, the answers point to the House of Single - once a respectable finance company, now entangled with a Russian crime syndicate. West is pitted against East, and the British establishment against a labyrinthine criminal superpower, in le Carre's searing novel of lives built upon lies. (From the publisher...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) CALL FOR THE DEAD
After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined? (From the publisher) "In...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) A MURDER OF QUALITY
Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doyleys and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. As Smiley probes further beneath Carne's respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. In his second George Smiley novel, le Carr? moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English inst...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE SECRET PILGRIM
The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this final Smiley ...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE PIGEON TUNNEL
"Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now." From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE NAIVE AND SENTIMENTAL LOVER
Aldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant family, drives a safe, expensive car and wears luxurious clothes. But his soothing existence is upended when he meets Shamus and Helen - a dazzling, bohemian couple who are everything he is not. As he is drawn into their reckless and unpredictable orbit, all that Cassidy thought he understood about his orderly life begins to unravel. Told with le Carre's lacerating wit and penetrating observation, The Naive and Sentimental Lover is an acerbic satire of middle-class hypocrisies. (From the pu...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL
A special edition of John le Carre's thrilling novel of espionage and betrayal in the Middle East, to tie in with the new BBC series starring Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Shannon and Florence Pugh Charlie, a jobbing young English actress, is accustomed to playing different roles. But when the mysterious, battle-scarred Joseph recruits her into the Israeli secret services, she enters the dangerous 'theatre of the real'. As she acts out her part in an intricate, high-stakes plot to trap and kill a Palestinian terrorist, it threatens to consu...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) A MOST WANTED MAN
An illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his name is Issa. To the idealistic young human rights lawyer Annabel, determined to save him from deportation, he is a worthy cause. To the intelligence services of Britain, Germany and America, however, he is a potential jihadist - and a pawn between them as they seek to make a kill in the war on terror. A Most Wanted Man is a gripping and disquieting story of paranoia, disillusionment and betrayal in the moral n...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
The first part of John le Carre's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged George Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart. A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaster George Smiley has been brought out of retirement in order to hunt down the traitor at the very heart of the Circus - even though it may be one of those c...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) ABSOLUTE FRIENDS
Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. A friend he thought was lost to him. A friend who took him from radical 1960s Berlin to life as a double agent. Now, decades later, the Cold War is over and the war on terror has begun. Sasha has another mission for them both, but this time it is impossible to tell the difference between allies - and enemies. Set in a world of lies and shifting allegiances, Absolute Friends is a savage fable of our times. (...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) A PERFECT SPY
Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unreliable con-man father who made him, the two mentors who moulded and shaped him, and now wish to claim this perfect spy as their own. Described by le Carre as his most autobiographical novel, A Perfect Spy is a devastating portrayal of a man who has played different roles for so long, he no long...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE TAILOR OF PANAMA

(P/B) AGENT RUNNING IN THE FIELD
Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie. Nat is not only a spy, he is a pa...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

ΟΙ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΙ ΤΟΥ ΣΜΑΙΛΙ
Σ' αυτό το συγκλονιστικό μυθιστόρημα ο Τζορτζ Σμάιλι, ο διοπτροφόρος παχουλός πράκτορας των βρετανικών μυστικών υπηρεσιών, και κορυφαία δημιουργία του Τζον Λε Καρέ, έρχεται για τελευταία φορά αντιμέτωπος με τον Σοβιετικό αντίπαλό του, τον Κάρλα. Οι ομάδες των Ρώσων αυτοεξόριστων είναι τα πιόνια σ' ένα περίπλοκο παιχνίδι που παίζεται ανάμεσα στο Παρίσι, το Λονδίνο, το Βερολίνο, τη Βέρνη και το Αμβούργο, κι αν ο Σμάιλι βγει νικητής, η νίκη του θα είναι, ταυτόχρονα και μια ήττα. Το "Οι άνθρωποι του Σμάιλι" είναι το τρίτο μυθιστόρημα της «Τρι...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

ΝΥΧΤΕΡΙΝΗ ΒΑΡΔΙΑ
Ο Τζόναθαν Πάιν είναι απλώς ο νυχτερινός διευθυντής ενός πολυτελούς ξενοδοχείου. Όταν, όμως, η προσπάθεια να διαβιβάσει ορισμένες πληροφορίες στις βρετανικές Αρχές -σχετικά με τις ύποπτες συναλλαγές ενός επιχειρηματία στο ξενοδοχείο- αποτυγχάνει παταγωδώς και οι κοντινοί του άνθρωποι αρχίζουν να πεθαίνουν, ο Πάιν μπλέκει σε έναν ιλιγγιώδη αγώνα εναντίον τέτοιων ισχυρών δυνάμεων που ούτε καν είχε φανταστεί πως υπήρχαν. Μέσα από μια συναρπαστική ιστορία για την αλήθεια πίσω από τον σκληρό κόσμο του λαθρεμπορίου όπλων, τα δισεκατομμύρια δολά...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

Η ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΑ ΚΛΗΣΗ
Μια ανώνυμη επιστολή κατηγορεί τον Σάμιουελ Φίναν, άνθρωπο του Υπουργείου Εξωτερικών, ότι υπήρξε μέλος του κομουνιστικού κόμματος κατά την περίοδο των φοιτητικών του χρόνων, πριν από τον πόλεμο: κάτι διόλου ασυνήθιστο για τους ανθρώπους της γενιάς του. Ο Σμάιλι, υψηλά ιστάμενος των Βρετανικών Μυστικών Υπηρεσιών, δηλώνει ευθαρσώς ότι η σχετική έρευνα - υπόθεση ρουτίνας σχεδόν - ολοκληρώθηκε και ότι ο φάκελος Φίναν μπορεί να κλείσει. (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

ΤΟ ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΗΣ
Ο Μπρούνο Σαλβαντόρ είναι ο νόθος γιος ενός Ιρλανδού καθολικού ιεραπόστολου και μιας Κονγκολέζας. (. . .) Και θα 'μενε για πάντα ένας ανεπιθύμητος παρίας, αν η μεικτή καταγωγή του δεν του έδινε το χάρισμα να γλιστρά με απίστευτη άνεση από γλώσσα σε γλώσσα. . . Σήμερα είναι ένας διερμηνέας πρώτης κλάσεως (. . .). Η επιτυχία του τον κάνει ανεκτό ακόμη και στην αριστοκρατική και κατάλευκη οικογένεια της συζύγου του Πενέλοπι, ανερχόμενης δημοσιογράφου των ταμπλόιντ. Ο Σάλβο, όπως τον φωνάζουν όλοι, δείχνει απόλυτα αφομοιωμένος στην κοινωνία όπ...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

Η ΩΡΑ ΤΩΝ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΟΠΩΝ
Άραγε πόσος καιρός έχει περάσει από την τελευταία φορά που η Υπηρεσία οργάνωσε μια επιχείρηση; Πάρα πολύς. Τώρα, όμως, έχει στα χέρια της μια υπόθεση. Ανεπιβεβαίωτα στοιχεία υποδεικνύουν ότι σοβιετικοί πύραυλοι εγκαταστάθηκαν κοντά στα δυτικογερμανικά σύνορα, ενώ παράλληλα ένα ζωτικής σημασίας φωτογραφικό φιλμ χάνεται και ένας αγγελιαφόρος βρίσκεται νεκρός. Η Υπηρεσία αναζητά κάποιον βετεράνο για να ξεμπλέξει το κουβάρι. Ο Φρεντ Λάιζερ, ένας γερμανόφωνος Πολωνός, πολιτογραφημένος Βρετανός, άλλοτε ικανός ασυρματιστής που τώρα ασχολείται με ...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

Ο ΠΟΙΟΤΙΚΟΣ ΦΟΝΟΣ
Ο Τζορτζ Σμάιλι προσφέρεται να βοηθήσει μια παλιά του φίλη, τη δεσποινίδα Μπρίμλι, αρχισυντάκτρια ενός μικρού εντύπου θρησκευτικού περιεχομένου. Η δεσποινίς Μπρίμλι έχει λάβει ένα γράμμα από μια αναστατωμένη αναγνώστρια: "Δεν είμαι τρελή. Και ξέρω ότι ο άντρας μου προσπαθεί να με σκοτώσει". Η αποστολέας λέγεται Στέλα Ροντ, σύζυγος καθηγητή της Σχολής Κάρνε, του Ντόρσετ, και όταν το γράμμα φτάνει στον προορισμό του, εκείνη βρίσκεται ήδη νεκρή. Το Κάρνε είναι ένα παμπάλαιο, αυτάρεσκο, εκκλησιαστικό ίδρυμα, υπερήφανο για την αυστηρότητά του σ...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY
In the second part of John le Carre's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history. Using the talents of journalist and occasional spy Jerry Westerby, Smiley launches a risky operation uncovering a Russian money-laundering scheme in the Far East. His aim: revenge on Karla, head of Moscow Centre and the architect of all ...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) SMILEY'S PEOPLE
The concluding part of John le Carr?'s celebrated Karla Trilogy, Smiley's People sees the last confrontation between the indefatigable spymaster George Smiley and his great enemy, as their rivalry comes to a shattering end. A Soviet defector has been assassinated on English soil, and George Smiley is called back to the Circus to clear up - and cover up - the mess. But what he discovers sends him delving into the past, on a trail through Hamburg and Paris to Cold War Berlin - and a final showdown with his elusive nemesis, Karla. (From the p...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) A PERFECT SPY
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. Dominated by a father who is also a confidence trickster on an epic scale, Pym has from the age of seventeen been controlled by two mentors. It is these two, racing each other and time itself, who are orchestrating the search to find the perfect spy ... (From the publisher)...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY
It is a beleaguered and betrayed Secret Service that has been put in the care of George Smiley. A mole has been uncovered at the organisation's highest levels - and its agents across the world put in grave danger. But untangling the traitor's web gives Smiley a chance to attack his Russian counterpart, Karla. And part-time spy Jerry Westerby is the weapon at Smiley's disposal. The Honourable Schoolboy is remarkable and thrilling, one of three books (together with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People) to feature the legendary clash...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE CONSTANT GARDENER
Frightening, heartbreaking and exquisitely calibrated, "The Constant Gardener" is a profoundly moving story of a man ennobled by his wife's tragic murder, and a magnificent exploration of the dark side of unbridled capitalism. (From the publisher) "Richly detailed, full of righteous fire to offset its desperate prognosis, The Constant Gardener is a very impressive piece of work". (Times Literary Supplement) "Le Carre poses deep spiritual questions about the damage [the human race] has done, and continues to do, both to the planet and to ...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE NAIVE AND SENTIMENTAL LOVER
Aldo Cassidy is the naive and seplmental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined. (From the publisher) "Splendid, original... le Carre shows how endowed he is with the gift of storytelling". (The Times...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL
In this enthralling and thought-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young actress, is lured into 'the theatre of the real' by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist. The Little Drummer Girl is a thrilling, deeply moving and courageous novel of our times. (From the publisher) "A few years ago le Carre said he had not written the book he would want to be buried with. Perhaps...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
The enduring novel by one of our greatest storytellers. George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy. The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplighters, scalp-hunters and pavement artists, where men are turned, burned or bought for stock. Smiley's mission is to catch a Moscow Centre mole burrowed thirty years deep into the Circus itself. (From the publisher)...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) SMILEY'S PEOPLE
A wonderful, classic le Carre now reissued in a stunning new package. The murdered man had been an agent - once, long ago. But George Smiley's superiors at the Secret Service want to see the crime buried, not solved. Smiley will not leave it at that, not when it might lead him all the way to Karla, the elusive Soviet spymaster... Smiley's People is a thrilling confrontation between one of the most famous spies in all fiction and his Cold War rival, Karla. Like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy, it is as tense and unfor...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

ΜΙΑ ΜΙΚΡΗ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΗ ΠΟΛΗ
Τέλη της δεκαετίας του '60. Ο Χάρτινγκ, υπάλληλος της Βρετανικής Πρεσβείας στη Βόννη, εξαφανίζεται και μαζί του εξαφανίζονται σαράντα πέντε άκρως απόρρητοι φάκελοι. Η στιγμή είναι κρίσιμη και ενδεχομένως διόλου τυχαία. Φοιτητές και νεοναζί διαδηλώνουν στους δρόμους, ενώ διαπραγματεύσεις ζωτικής σημασίας βρίσκονται σε εξέλιξη στις Βρυξέλλες. Ο αξιωματικός ασφαλείας Άλαν Τέρνερ στέλνεται από το Λονδίνο στη Βόννη για να εντοπίσει τον αγνοούμενο και τους φακέλους. Εντωμεταξύ το παρελθόν, το παρόν και το μέλλον της Γερμανίας απειλούν να συγκρου...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE MISSION SONG
Bruno Salvador has worked on clandestine missions before. A highly skilled interpreter, he is no stranger to the Official Secrets Act. But this is the first time he has been asked to change his identity - and, worse still, his clothes - in service of his country. Whisked to a remote island to interpret a top-secret conference between no-name financiers and Congolese warlords, Salvo's excitement is only heightened by memories of the night before he left London, and his life-changing encounter with a beautiful nurse named Hannah. Exit sudden...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) SINGLE AND SINGLE
A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand. A children's entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the Black Sea. A celebrated London financier has disappeared into thin air. A British customs officer is on a trail of corruption and murder. Single & Single is a thrilling journey of the contemporary human heart - intimate, magical, riotous and subt...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) A MOST WANTED MAN
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Fre`res, a failing Brit...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) ABSOLUTE FRIENDS
Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor, first become friends as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties. They meet again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies. (From the publisher) "The master has not lost his touch... one of his most enthralling creations". (A.N. Wilson, Telegraph)...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...