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 The Mission Song by John le Carré (Paperback)   Abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador has long looked for someone to guide his life. He has found it in Mr. Anderson of British Intelligence.Bruno's African upbringing, and fluency in numerous African languages, has made him a top interpreter in London, useful to businesses, hospitals, diplomats-and spies. Working for Anderson in a clandestine facility known as the "Chat Room," Salvo (as he's known) translates intercepted phone calls, bugged recordings, snatched voice mail messages. When Anderson sends him to a mysterious island to interpret during a secret conference between Central African warlords, Bruno thinks he is helping Britain bring peace to a bloody corner of the world. But then he hears something he should not have....Building upon the box office success of le Carre's The Constant Gardener (like THE MISSION SONG, built around turmoil and conspiracy in Africa) and le Carre's laser eye for the complexity of the modern world (seen in Absolute Friends' prediction that the Iraq war would be based on phony and manipulated intelligence), this new novel is a crowning achievement, full of politics, heart, and the sort of suspense that nobody in the world does better.      

Paperback. English. Pan. 1978. 319pp. In fair condition. The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty's financially troubled government is seeking admission to Europe's Common Market just as anti-British factions are rising to power in Germany. Rioters are demanding reunification, and the last thing the Crown can afford is a scandal. Then Leo Harting—an embassy nobody—goes missing with a case full of confidential files. London sends Alan Turner to control the damage, but he soon realizes that neither side really wants Leo found—alive. Set against the threat of a German-Soviet alliance, John le Carré's A Small Town in Germany is a superb chronicle of Cold War paranoia and political compromise.

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  Author(s): John le Carré  Title:      Single and Single  ISBN:  none  Publisher/place: BCA, London  This Edition: book club edition  Year of Publication: 1999  First Published: 1999 (Hodder and Stoughton, London)  Binding: hardcover Dustjacket: yes  Number of pages:  335  Weight: 371g  Condition:   Dustjacket has a little wear, and some small tears at the head and tail of the spine.  Book itself in good condition.  -has previous owner’s name written inside Please see pictures, as these form part of the description.  

  Author(s): John Le Carré Title:      The Little Drummer Girl  ISBN:  978 0 394 53015 4  Publisher/place: Alfred A. Knopf, New York  This Edition: first  Year of Publication: 1983  Binding: hardcover Dustjacket: yes  Number of pages:  429  Weight: 502g  Condition:   Excellent 

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Murder and mystery in East Africa involving British diplomats d/w very good Edition: 1st, UK edition Publisher: H&S Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 0 340 73337 3

Hardback. English. Hodder & Stoughton. 2001. In good condition. Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has disappeared. Her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. His quest takes him to the Foreign Office in London, across Europe and Canada and back to Africa, to the depths of South Sudan, and finally to the very spot where Tessa died. On his way Justin meets terror, violence, laughter, conspiracy and knowledge. But his greatest discovery is the woman he barely had time to love.

Paperback. English. Pan. 1966. In fair condition. In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin Wall, Alec Leamas watches as his last agent is shot dead by East German sentries. For Leamas, the head of Berlin Station, the Cold War is over. As he faces the prospect of retirement or worse

Hardback. English. Hodder & Stoughton. 1983. In good condition with edgeworn dw. Inscription inside. On holiday in Mykonos, Charlie wants only sunny days and a brief escape from England’s bourgeois dreariness. Then a handsome stranger lures the aspiring actress away from her pals—but his intentions are far from romantic. Joseph is an Israeli intelligence officer, and Charlie has been wooed to flush out the leader of a Palestinian terrorist group responsible for a string of deadly bombings. Still uncertain of her own allegiances, she debuts in the role of a lifetime as a double agent in the theatre of the real.

Paperback. English. Publisher: Bantam. 1978. In fair/used condition. Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental 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.

A trip through the secret world of spies and espionage by the master of the Cold War thriller. d/w very good A very collectable and readable.book. Edition: 1st, UK edition Publisher: H&R Binding: Hardcover

 First edition published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1971. Book and jacket in near fine condition.  

Publisher: Open University Press (1986) ISBN: 033515252x Condition: Very good. Small stain to top edge of textblock. Binding: Softcover Pages: 175 Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.3 x 1.4cm SKU: IZ2203 Weight: 0.3kg Price: R90.00 +++ by Tony Barley +++ Please see photo for synopsis of book.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days 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. 'Le Carre is the equal of any novelist now writing in English' Guardian 'A marvellously observed relentless tale' Observer 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 chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies, billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade, John le Carre creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted. 'Complex and intense... page-turning tension' San Francisco Chronicle 'When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carre... they were a journey into the wider world... 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... Having plumbed the devious depths of the Cold War, le Carre has done it again for our nasty new age' The Times (on Our Kind of Traitor) Features Summary 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... Author John Le Carre Publisher Penguin Classics Release date 20131107 Pages 472 ISBN 0-14-139301-7 ISBN 13 978-0-14-139301-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days John le Carre'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 Carre expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart. It is now beyond doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed. Features Summary A wonderful, classic le Carre now reissued in a stunning new package. Author John Le Carre Publisher Sceptre Release date 20091126 Pages 422 ISBN 0-340-99376-6 ISBN 13 978-0-340-99376-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days This is the first novel in over twenty-five years to feature George Smiley, le Carre's most beloved character. 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 Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinised under disturbing criteria by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carre has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Features Summary This is the first novel in over twenty-five years to feature George Smiley, le Carre's most beloved character. Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service... Author John Le Carre Publisher Viking Release date 20170907 Pages 264 ISBN 0-241-30855-0 ISBN 13 978-0-241-30855-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days 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 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 unforgettable as only le Carre's novels can be. Features Summary A wonderful, classic le Carre now reissued in a stunning new package. Author John Le Carre Publisher Sceptre Release date 20091126 Pages 454 ISBN 0-340-99378-2 ISBN 13 978-0-340-99378-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days 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?Le Carre's debut novel, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit. Features Summary 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... Author John Le Carre Publisher Penguin Classics Release date 20111101 Pages 149 ISBN 0-14-119828-1 ISBN 13 978-0-14-119828-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Stella Rimington meets State of Play in this smart political thriller for a new generation of Le Carre fans. SECRETS 1991, Belfast. Maire Anne McCartney is recruited for a one-off IRA mission as a honey trap. She is told there will be no violence. But she has been lied to.To save herself, eighteen-year-old Maire must flee across the border alone, and start anew life. STATE Present day, London. Human rights lawyer Anne-Marie Gallagher is appointed Minister of State for Security and Immigration.At the same time, the police in Belfast receive an anonymous tip-off. The password is verified from the Troubles - and the co-ordinates lead DCI Jon Carne to a field. And a body. BETRAYAL The new Minister receives a message and realises that the new life she has crafted is at risk of being uncovered.And when Carne's investigation brings Anne- Marie to his attention, she must decide where her allegiances lie... Features Summary Stella Rimington meets State of Play in this smart political thriller for a new generation of Le Carre fans. Author Simon Berthon Publisher HQ Release date 20170713 Pages 384 ISBN 0-00-821436-0 ISBN 13 978-0-00-821436-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days 'Europe in Autumn' is a thriller of espionage and the future which reads like the love child of John le Carre and Franz Kafka. Rudi is a cook in a Krakow restaurant, but when his boss asks Rudi to help a cousin escape from the country he s trapped in, a new career - part spy, part people-smuggler - begins. Following multiple economic crises and a devastating flu pandemic, Europe has fractured into countless tiny nations, duchies, polities and republics. Recruited by the shadowy organisation "Les Coureurs des Bois," Rudi is schooled in espionage, but when a training mission to The Line, a sovereign nation consisting of a trans-Europe railway line, goes wrong, he is arrested, beaten and Coureur Central must attempt a rescue. With so many nations to work in, and identities to assume, Rudi is kept busy travelling across Europe. But when he is sent to smuggle someone out of Berlin and finds a severed head inside a locker instead, a conspiracy begins to wind itself around him. With kidnapping, double-crosses and a map that constantly re-draws, Rudi begins to realise that underneath his daily round of plot and counter plot, behind the conflicting territories, another entirely different reality might be pulling the strings... Features Summary Rudi is a cook in a Krakow restaurant, but when his boss asks Rudi to help a cousin escape from the country he's trapped in, a new career - part spy, part people-smuggler - begins... Author Dave Hutchinson Publisher Solaris Release date 20140214 Pages 317 ISBN 1-78108-195-6 ISBN 13 978-1-78108-195-2

We combine postage, so do look at our other items on offer. Postage prices outside of South African borders will differ. Please enquire before purchasing. Dispatched within 3 business days. Condition: Good. Pan, 2002 - Thriller - 433 pp. Scott Turow's compelling, multi-dimensional characters take the reader into Kindle County's parallel yet intersecting worlds of weary police, small-time crooks and ambitious lawyers. Corporate lawyer Arthur Raven is the court-appointed attorney for a Death Row inmate. Convinced his client is innocent thanks to new evidence, Raven is a fervent crusader--and also a rookie in the vicious world of criminal law. No other writer offers such a convincing true-to-life picture of how the law and life interact, or such a profound understanding of what is at stake--personally, professionally, and morally--when the state holds the power to end a man's life. Review: "No one on the contemporary scene writes better myster-suspense novels than Scott Turow." - -Bill Blum, Los Angeles Times Book Review "When Scott Turow writes about a milieu, he knows whereof he speaks. You know he made it up, but you also know it's real." - -George V. Higgins, Chicago Tribune "Turow brings a literary sensibility to a grit-and-gravel genre: if he calls to mind any comparison, it's to John le Carre. His novels are shaped by [a] studied bleakness, an introspect's embrace of the gray-zone ambiguities of modern life." - -Gail Caldwell, The Boston Sunday Globe "Turow is the class act of legal thriller writers." - -Publishers Weekly Free and discounted shipping on bulk purchases (postal and courier) within the RSA. See shipping for details.   Please Click ---> HERE PTO Books is selling.