| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9781416594888 | | Publisher: Scribner Book Company | | Publish Date: 10/7/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 207974733 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.5H x 6.75L x 1.25T | | Pages: 448 |
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| | | New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love or pity and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fabric of John le Carr's fiercely compelling and current novel 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 around 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 -- or safety. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Frres, a failing British bank based in Hamburg.
Annabel, Issa and Brue form an unlikely alliance -- and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror," the rival spies of Germany, England and America converge upon the innocents.
Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is a work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times.
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In this provocative tale from bestselling spy novelist John le Carre, two Turkish Muslims are living in Hamburg when they kindly offer shelter to a desperate homeless man named Issa. Their act of kindness soon turns into a full-on red alert in three different countries when it is revealed that Issa is in fact a wanted terrorist. Innocent people are soon pulled into a complicated maze of spies and government conspiracies, raising many questions about the nature of morality and what is right or true. Le Carre is the author of the great spy classic THE SPY WHO CAME IN THE FROM THE COLD. THE MOST WANTED MAN was selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2008.
| Author Bio| John Le Carre | | Born David Cornwell in Poole, Dorset, John Le Carr? attended Berne University in Switzerland and Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating in 1956 with a B.A. in modern languages. After tutoring at Eton for two years, he went to work for the British Foreign Service in Bonn and Hamburg from 1959 to 1964. Le Carr? is best known for his brooding international spy, the ironically named George Smiley. In fact, Smiley is a dark, disturbed agent mired in the lonely, cutthroat world of espionage where the line between good and evil is often blurred, and sometimes erased. Le Carr? pulls no punches in depicting the stark, inhuman nature of international intrigue. He first gained fame for the classic thriller THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (1963), which featured Smiley in a small, supporting role. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, many people predicted that Le Carr?'s career would die with the Cold War. But Le Carr? proved them wrong, finding newly relevant topics in the post-Cold-War world. |
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