John le Carre

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John le Carre

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The Constant Gardener

THE CONSTANT GARDENERA Novel by JOHN LE CARREFrightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carre's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and raveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. What he might know and what he ultimately learns make him suspect among his own colleagues and a target for the profiteers who killed his wife.A master chronicler of the deceptions and betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, le Carre portrays, in The Constant Gardener, the dark side of unbridled capitalism. His eighteenth novel is also the profoundly moving story of a man whom tragedy elevates. Justin Quayle, amateur gardener and ineffectual bureaucrat, seemingly oblivious to his wife's cause, discovers his own resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time.This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.Published by: SCRIBNER. NEW YORK.Copyright 2001 by David CornwellJohn le Carre was born in 1931. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Honorable Schoolboy; and Smiley's People. His novels include The Little Drummer Girl, A Perfect Spy, The Russia House, Our Game, The Tailor of Panama, and Single and Single. John le Carre lives in Cornwall.PRAISE FOR JOHN LE CARRE"Le Carre is more than just a great storyteller. He captures the zeitgeist itself." — TOM WOLFE"He is one of the half-dozen best novelists now working in English." — CHICAGO SUNTIMES"A brilliant linguistic artist with a keen eye for the exotic and not-so-exotic locale, a crafty moralizer with an occasional bent for sentiment." — THE WALL STREET JOURNAL"No other contemporary novelist has more durably enjoyed the twin badges of being both well read and well regarded." — SCOTT TUROW"Le Carre has a great talent for entangling his audience in the sticky tape of complexity, paradox, and irony, and much of the pleasure in his stories is following the same dense, dark path as his characters." — NEW YORK DAILY NEWS"Any reader who feared that the end of the Cold War would deprive Mr. le Carre of his subject can now feel a measure of relief. If anything, his subject of East-West misunderstanding has grown richer, and he now possesses vast new territories to mine." — THE NEW YORK TIMES"He has reinvented the realistic spy story as the supreme theater of paradox, where heroism breeds vice, and virtue is a quite accidental by-product of impudent crimes." — TIME"Le Carre is one of the best novelists — of any kind — we have." — VANITY FAIR

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The Night Manager

SUMMARY: We are in a new arena of intrigue where the old rivalries of great nations have been supplanted by the ravages of individual greed. We are in a new world of espionage where the habits and rules forged by past generations of spies are put to more shocking use. We are inside the international cartel of illegal arms dealers and drug smugglers, now rising to unheard of power under the command of men whose ruthlessness is matched only by their limitless hunger for unlimited wealth. It is this world, in all its brilliant corruption, that John le Carre now opens up for us. His peerless gifts ― his mastery of storytelling and characterization  ―  have never been more stunningly employed. In The Night Manager, the hypnotic narrative is charge by a luminous understanding of the paradoxes implicit in our perceptions of evildoing and virtue.The Fledgling Spy, Who Come of Age, The Spy in His Prime, The Looking Glass War and The Russia House, by John le Carre, are also available from Random House AudioBooks.The Night Manager is available in hardcover from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc

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A Perfect Spy

Over the course of his seemingly irreproachable life, Magnus Pym has been all things to all people: a devoted family man, a trusted colleague, a loyal friend-and the perfect spy. But in the wake of his estranged father's death, Magnus vanishes, and the British Secret Service is up in arms. Is it grief, or is the reason for his disappearance more sinister? And who is the mysterious man with the sad mustache who also seems to be looking for Magnus? In *A Perfect Spy*, John le Carre has crafted one of his crowning masterpieces, interweaving a moving and unusual coming-of-age story with a morally tangled chronicle of modern espionage.MAGNUS PYM — The master operative. A perfect spy. Locked in furious combat with the conflicting demons of his twisted loyalties. A battle that may eventually tear him to pieces.MARY PYM — Magnus's devoted wife and partner in tradecraft, bowed under the crushing weight of shocking revelations about the man she loved but never truly knew.JACK BROTHERHOOD — Pym's superior, rival, mentor, friend. Like a modern-day Dr.Frankenstein, he is threatened with ruin at the hands of his own creation.RICK PYM — Magnus's charismatic father. A charming, unprincipled con man who created a deadly, inescapable legacy of treachery and deception to pass along to his unsuspecting heir.JOHN LE CARRÉ was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last 50 years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.

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