In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. Jonathan Pine is ready to stand up and be counted in the fight against this ultimate heart of darkness. His mission takes him from the cliffs of west Cornwall, via northern Quebec and the Caribbean, to the jungles of post-Noriega Panama. His quarry is the worst man in the world.
West Virginia, 1859. Sarah Brown heeft de bijzondere gave kaarten te tekenen en zo slaven te laten ontsnappen. Het is een veelbewogen zomer: Sarah is na een ziekte onvruchtbaar geworden en de oktoberopstand doet het kruitvat van de Burgeroorlog ontploffen. Maar het grootste conflict speelt zich af in haar hart. Ze is hartstochtelijk verliefd op Freddy maar hoe kan ze zijn aanzoek accepteren nu ze weet dat hun huwelijk kinderloos zal blijven? Honderdvijftig jaar later verhuizen Jack en Eden Anderson naar West Virginia om een gezin te stichten. Hoewel Eden alles heeft geprobeerd om zwanger te worden, wil het niet lukken. Op een dag vindt ze een vreemde pop in de kelder. Wanneer ze de herkomst probeert te achterhalen, gaan heden en verleden steeds meer door elkaar lopen.
This is the first novel in over twenty-five years to feature George Smiley, le Carr�'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 Carr� 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.
In this, the sequel to Beaches, Cee Cee Bloom, the famous singer and movie star, has been entrusted with the eight-year-old daughter of her friend Bertie, after the latter's tragic death. Then, with a devastating discovery, Cee Cee is forced to come to terms with the depth of her commitment.
"John le Carre's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and travelling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime." "Tessa's 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 he meets terror, violence, laughter, conspiracy and knowledge. But his greatest discovery is the woman he barely had time to love."--Jacket
Barley Blair suddenly possesses a sheaf of military secrets that could profoundly alter the course of history. British Intelligence wants him to find out who gave him the documents and why.
Een criminele Russische miljonair die wil overlopen naar het westen gebruikt een jong Engels paar om in contact te komen met de Britse inlichtingendienst.
A young Spaniard sets off for South America in 1518 with Cortes and the Conquistadors, propelled by his love's declaration that she will not marry until he returns with a special treasure -- a symbol of their love -- that no man or woman has ever before received. But during his travels he falls in love with Ignacia, a native woman who introduces him to the secrets of the most delicious drink he has ever tasted: chocolate. Their passionate affair is cut short by the chaotic conquest of Mexico. So begins this charming and adventurous story about the magical substance we now know as chocolate, and of the passions and obsessions it has inspired from its earliest days. Our hero later discovers that his lover had secretly added the elixir to life to his chocolate drink. This allows him to travel through history: to Paris during the time of the Revolution, to Vienna in the nineteenth century, to late Victorian England, and to Hershey Pennsylvania -- accompanied all the while by his trusty greyhound, Pedro. unable to die, he searches to recapture the magic of Ignacia's chocolate -- and to learn to love life just as fully. Playful and intelligent, this is a romantic story about love and loss inspired by a very enchanting substance.
It was a perfectly ordinary Friday afternoon in tropical Panama until Andrew Osnard barged into Harry Pendel’s shop asking to be measured for a suit So begins John le Carré’s dazzling new novel set in contemporary Panama, reluctant host and future owner of the second largest gateway to world trade. Harry Pendel, Jewish-Irish foster child, is the charismatic proprietor and guiding genius of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada, Tailors to Royalty, formerly of Savile Row, through whose doors passes everyone who is anyone in Central America. Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshly, is an Old Etonian and spy. His secret mission is two-pronged: to keep a watchful eye on the political manoeuvrings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal at midday on 31st December 1999; and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has until now churlishly eluded him. And Osnard knows more about Pendel than Pendel knows himself . . .
Wanneer Laurel Estabrook wordt overvallen terwijl ze door een achterbuurt van Vermont fietst, is haar leven voor altijd veranderd. Laurel werpt zich op het fotograferen en gaat werken voor een opvangcentrum voor daklozen. Daar ontmoet ze Bobbie Crocker, een geesteszieke man. Als Bobbie overlijdt, ontdekt Laurel dat hij een briljante fotograaf was die werkte met zulke legendes als Chuck Berry en Eartha Kitt. Laurels fascinatie voor Bobbie Crocker verandert in obsessie en ze raakt ervan overtuigd dat enkele foto's een diep verborgen familiegeheim onthullen. Haar zoektocht naar de waarheid leidt haar steeds verder weg van haar vroegere leven, waarbij ze verwikkeld raakt in een kat-en-muisspel met achtervolgers die zeggen dat ze haar willen redden.
