John le Carré Book order (chronological)

»Smiley ist John le Carrés beste Erfindung, eine der ganz großen Figuren der Literatur.« The Telegraph Nach seiner Niederlage an der Berliner Mauer hat George Smiley den britischen Geheimdienst verlassen. Das westliche Agentennetz liegt am Boden. Da läuft ein russischer Spion zu den Briten über, unter höchst ungewöhnlichen Umständen. Und der Mann, den er eigentlich in London töten sollte, ist verschwunden. Smiley lässt sich nicht lange bitten und übernimmt die Befragung einer Kollegin des Verschwundenen. Doch Moskaus Schatten sind länger geworden, und schon bald verfolgt Smiley wider besseres Wissen den Doppelspion, der für seine Niederlage an der Berliner Mauer verantwortlich war. Doch der ist ihm wie es scheint immer einen Schritt voraus. Brillante Neuerfindung eines Welterfolgs aus der Zeit des Kalten Krieges

A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway Set in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in the George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice is an extraordinary, thrilling return to the world of spy fiction's greatest writer, John le Carré. It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only on a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumour in Whitehall - unconfirmed and a little scandalous - that George Smiley might almost be happy. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Susanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead. But in his absence the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley will soon find himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come, and strike at the heart of his greatest enemy...

Po románu Jeden musí z kola ven je Ctihodný školáček druhým počinem autorovy volné trilogie spojené tajemným sovětským superšpionem „Karlou“... Je rok 1974 a George Smiley se snaží postavit britskou tajnou službu přezdívanou Cirkus znovu na nohy, poté co její pověst a síť kontaktů zničil dvojitý agent Bill Haydon. Úzký tým jeho spolupracovníků přijde na to, že v Hongkongu operuje vážený obchodník Drake Kao ve prospěch Karly a tím britské kolonii škodí; ale agenti objeví i to, že Drake má v rudé Číně bratra Nelsona, vysoce postaveného státního úředníka, a že se bratři mají v Hongkongu tajně setkat. O únos a vytěžení Nelsona usiluje i CIA, sice spolupracovník Britů, ale jen občasný a málo spolehlivý. Aby operace únosu proběhla úspěšně, Smiley najme spícího agenta Jerryho Westerbyho, jemuž se sice přezdívá „ctihodný školáček“, protože jako šlechtic vychodil ty nejlepší školy, ale jeho otec zbankrotoval. Jerry se tedy živí jako člověk na špinavou práci v nebezpečných situacích.

In "Sein letztes Meisterwerk" enthüllt John le Carré in einer faszinierenden Sammlung von Briefen seine Persönlichkeit und Gedanken. An Leser, Prominente und Familie gerichtet, zeigt er sich als spielerischer, intelligenter und eloquenter Mensch. Die Briefe bieten einen einzigartigen Einblick in sein Leben und Werk.

George Smiley – Der Spion, der Geschichte schrieb Ein vom Moskauer Zentrum eingesetzter Maulwurf hat die höchsten Ränge des britischen Geheimdienstes infiltriert und ihn dabei fast zerstört. Der ehemalige Spionagechef George Smiley wird aus dem Ruhestand geholt, um den Verräter zur Strecke zu bringen. Aber wem kann er trauen? Ein raffiniertes Spiel der Identitäten beginnt – mit tragischem Ausgang. Ein Agententhriller der Weltklasse - neu übersetzt von Peter Torberg.

Eine Explosion im Diplomatenviertel zerstört die Villa des israelischen Arbeitsattachés und fordert drei Todesopfer. Ein weiterer grausamer Anschlag in einer Reihe europaweiter Attentate, zu denen sich die Terrorgruppe Palästinensische Agonie bekennt. Für den endgültigen Vernichtungsschlag gegen die Terroristen braucht der israelische Meisterspion Schulmann die Hilfe von Charlie, einer jungen englischen Schauspielerin. Als sie einwilligt, einen mit Sprengstoff beladenen Mercedes durch Jugoslawien zu fahren, gibt es für sie kein Zurück mehr. Um zu überleben, wird sie die Rolle ihres Lebens spielen müssen. Große TV Doku "Der Taubentunnel" ab 20. Oktober 2023 auf AppleTV+

"An archive of letters written by the late John le Carré, giving readers access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our time The never-before-seen correspondance of John le Carré, one of the most important novelists of our generation, are collected in this beautiful volume. During his lifetime, le Carré wrote numerous letters to writers, spies, politicians, artists, actors and public figures. This collection is a treasure trove, revealing the late author's humour, generosity, and wit--a side of him many readers have not previously seen"--Publisher's description

Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish emigre living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carre asks what you owe to your country when you no longer recognise it.

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 passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age- the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his 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 are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater good. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own story, John le CarrU has given us a novel of superb and enduring quality.

"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 the reality.' The Pigeon Tunnel, John le CarrU's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret sharers' - the men and women who inspired some of his most enthralling novels. From terrifying meetings with Yasser Arafat in war-torn Beirut to brilliantly observed encounters with the great figures of 20th century film, from Stanley Kubrick to Alec Guinness. The reader is swept along not just by the chilling winds of the Cold War or by the author's frightening journeys into places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the author's inimitable voice. In this astonishing work we see our world, both public and private, through the eyes of one of the world's greatest writers."

Известие о самоубийстве чиновника министерства иностранных дел Семюэла Фенна озадочило Джорджа Смайли. Ведь у Фенна не было причин добровольно расстаться с жизнью. Тогда действительно ли это было самоубийство? Возможно, Фенна просто убрали? Но кто и почему? Смайли не принимает всерьез просьбу своей давней приятельницы мисс Бримли защитить ее подругу Стеллу Роуд, заявляющую, что готова убить собственного мужа. Однако вскоре Стеллу действительно убивают, и Смайли вскоре мотивы преступления следует искать отнюдь не в семейных отношениях супругов…

Two young lovers find themselves in the darkening basement of an anonymous house in Bloomsbury. In the same room sit two members of Britain's intelligence service. 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. And Dima has cash - and he is prepared to pay. 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 Alps. When there is that much money at stake, and a British government that needs it that badly, certain sacrifices, even if it means a life or two, will have to be made ..

Granta is a leading literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom. Initially founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, it was successfully relaunched as a magazine of "new writing" in 1979. Granta is a literary quarterly with a distinctive mix of fiction, personal history, reportage, and documentary photography.

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 Fr�res, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. A triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the so-called War on Terror, the spies of three nations converge upon the innocents. Poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A MOST WANTED MAN is alive with humour, yet prickles with tension until the last heart-stopping page. It is also a work of deep humanity, and uncommon relevance to our times.

Een Brits geheim agent die opdracht krijgt het hoofd van de Oost-Duitse geheime dienst onschadelijk te maken, raakt in een hachelijke positie wanneer hij naar de Oostzone ontvoerd wordt.

Le Carré ricostruisce la curiosa, spesso enigmatica personalità del proprio padre, figura di avventuriero protagonista di mille espedienti e trovate allo scopo di vivere la propria esistenza come un romanzo. Il flusso dei ricordi getta così una luce nuova, spesso commovente, sulla famiglia e sull'identità di uno scrittore contemporaneo, che ha vissuto in prima persona mille spunti dei suoi romanzi di spionaggio

Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission school in the East Congolese province of Kivu, and later at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome, Salvo is inspired by his mentor Brother Michael to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages of which, almost from birth, he has been an obsessive collector. Soon a rising star in his profession, he is courted by City corporations, hospitals, law courts, the Immigration services and - inevitably - the mushrooming overworld of British Intelligence. He is also courted - and won - by the all-white, Surrey-born Penelope, star reporter on one of our great national newspapers, whom with typical impulsiveness he promptly marries. Yet even as the story opens, a contrary and irresistible love is dawning in him. Despatched to a no-name island in the North Sea to attend a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, Salvo is obliged to interpret matters never intended for his re-awoken African conscience.

In 2008, a counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Cornwall, UK, 2011. A disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be--or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up?

"Absolutt venner" tar oss med fra de siste årene av den kalde krigen og helt frem til Saddam Husseins siste dager ved makten i Irak. Ted Mundy er født i Pakistan, moren dør under fødselen og han vokser opp sammen med den fordrukne faren. Sammen med faren flytter han etter hvert til England og en kostskole han aldri finner seg helt til rette på. Den eneste han knytter seg til er tysklæreren, og tysk utvikler seg til å bli Teds spesialfelt. Han reiser til Berlin og blir kjent med den radikale Sasha, som kommer til å få stor innflytelse på livet hans. Sasha blir spion for vesten og Ted blir hans kontaktperson. Når muren faller, faller Teds liv i grus. Ingen har bruk for ham mer, kona har forlatt ham og han har et dårlig forhold til sønnen. 12 år senere er han etablert på nytt i Tyskland og jobber som guide i en historisk bygning. Sasha har tilbrakt de siste årene i Midt-Østen, og dukker opp igjen med et tilbud til Ted ? de to skal igjen utfordre samfunnet og gjøre opprør mot Europas og USAs imperialistiske fremferd.

Een Engelse bank, die zijn grootste profijt uit allerlei criminele activiteiten haalt, raakt in de problemen met Russische leveranciers.

Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Scottish Herald 'The beauty of the prose is in contrast with the horror anticipated by this superbly subtle narrative' Kapka KassabovaIn 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French ethnologist Fran-ois Bizot is captured by the Khmer Rouge. Accused of being an agent of 'American imperialism', he is chained and imprisoned. His captor, Douch - later responsible for tens of thousands of deaths - interrogates him at length; after three months of torturous deliberation, during which his every word was weighed and his life hung in the balance, he was released. Four years later, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. Fran-ois Bizot became the official intermediary between the ruthless conqueror and the terrified refugees behind the gate of the French a ringside seat to one of history's most appalling genocides. Written thirty years later, Fran-ois Bizot's memoir of his horrific experiences in the 'killing fields' of Cambodia is, in the words of John le Carr-, a 'contemporary classic'.

ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours. The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties, 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. Deriving its scale from A PERFECT SPY and its passion from THE CONSTANT GARDENER, Le Carré's new novel presents us with magical writing, characters to delight, and a spellbinding story that enchants even as it challenges.

Un agente secreto británico que recibe la misión de neutralizar al jefe del servicio secreto de Alemania Oriental se encuentra en una situación peligrosa cuando es secuestrado y llevado a la zona oriental.

Il servizio segreto britannico è stato colpito al cuore. Un agente infiltrato ha svelato i suo segreti e smantellato la sua rete di intelligence: anni di coperture in fumo, una reputazione distrutta. Quando George Smiley prende il controllo dell'organizzazione, sa di dover tentare il tutto per tutto per riconquistare il rispetto internazionale. E gioca le sue carte. Ingaggia l'"Onorevole scolaro" Jerry Westebury e lo immette in un giro d'affari, soldi, droga che ha il suo centro in Estremo Oriente. Lo scopo è scoprire chi e come riese a far circolare immense somme di denaro dalla ricca Hong Kong alla vecchia Cina comunista. Quello che Jerry non sa è che Smiley è pronto a tutto pur di svelare l'intrigo: anche a sacrificarlo. E si trova all'improvviso prigioniero di un gioco più grande di lui, pedina di una partita di cui ignora le stesse regole... Una spy story che ha fatto di John Le Carré uno degli scrittori di thriller più amati al mondo.

Bevat de volgende romans: Spion aan de muur (The spy who came in from the cold) Spion verspeeld (The looking-glass war) Bevat tevens de volgende verhalen: Nachtmerrie (Nightmare '66) Marie-Louise (The growth of Marie-Louise) Scenario (George Smiley goes home)

The young and beautiful Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana. Her African lover has vanished, and her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener, sets out in pursuit of the killers and their motive.

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 subtly architected, showing us John le Carré at the height of his dramatic and creative powers.

A marvelously entertaining diary from one of the most distinguished--and beloved--actors of stage and screen. Revealing the octogenarian spryness of a civilized mind and a beguiling mixture of the meditative and the hedonistic, My Name Escapes Me offers a glimpse of the private side of Guinness's often very public life.

Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama, through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes; Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshly, is a 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 on 31st December 1999; and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has until now churlishly eluded him.

"FURIOUS IN ACTION...TAKES US BY THE NECK ON PAGE ONE AND NEVER LETS GO." --Chicago Sun-Times With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protégé, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left.... "IRRESISTIBLE...A sinuous plot, leisurely introduced, whose coils become increasingly constricting. There is crisp, intelligent dialogue, much of it riding an undercurrent of menace. And there is a hero who does not see himself as heroic but who struggles with inner demons as much as with the forces arrayed against him." --Time "AS THRILLING AS LE CARRÉ GETS...The novel has the heartstop duplicity of A Perfect Spy and some of the outraged honor of The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl." --The Boston Globe "GRIPPING." --The Christian Science Monitor A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

In den schattigen Winkeln von Whitehall und Washington operiert eine unheilige Allianz zwischen der Geheimdienstgemeinschaft und dem geheimen Waffenhandel. Jonathan Pine ist bereit, sich im Kampf gegen dieses ultimative Herz der Dunkelheit zu behaupten. Seine Mission führt ihn von den Klippen im Westen Cornwalls über Nord-Quebec und die Karibik bis in die Dschungel des nach Noriega besetzten Panamas. Sein Ziel ist der schlimmste Mensch der Welt.

Špionážní román líčí příběh britského agenta, jenž v prostředí východoněmecké totality naráží na silného protivníka. Po dohodě s vlastní centrálou se vrací do NDR, aby tohoto nebezpečného protivníka zneškodnil. Dokonalá příprava slibuje naprosté utajení a tím i úspěch celé akce. Rozvíjí se napínavá hra tahů a protitahů, ve které lidské city ani život nemají nejmenší cenu. Hrdina má však značnou šanci na přežití do té doby, než se do soukolí špionážní mašinerie dostane dívka, kterou miluje. Inteligentní práce s komplikovanou zápletkou a unaveným, otráveným, Jamese Bonda nikterak nepřipomínajícím agentem jménem Alec Leamas. Kniha dominovala 56 týdnů na seznamu bestsellerů The New York Times. (www.pitaval.cz)

Una storia vera per John Le Carré. Un colloquio con una spia autentica, anche se anomala. Jean-Louis Jeanmaire, colonnello dell'esercito svizzero, durante gli anni Sessanta ha fornito ad un diplomatico russo informazioni sul sistema difensivo elvetico. E per questo è stato processato e condannato. Ma né la prigione né il tempo trascorso hanno modificato l'opinione che Jeanmaire ha di sé e del suo operato: non è stato tradimento, ma atto di dissuasione. Per scoraggiare ogni tentativo di invasione da parte sovietica.

The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence - the Circus - all his adult life. Now, approaching the end of his career, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years. Ned illuminates the brave past of the legendary George Smiley, his hero and mentor who, in one unforgettable evening, gives back to him the dangerous edge of memory that empowers him finally to frame the questions that have haunted him for thirty years ...

It is the third summer of Perestroika. Barley Blair, London publisher, receives a smuggled document from Moscow. It contains technical information of overwhelming importance. But is it genuine? Is the author genuine? A plant? A madman?

Three more great ones from this incomparable international bestseller who is regarded by many as the father of the spy novel. This hardcover trilogy features three of the masters most exciting and best-selling stories: The Russia House, The Secret Pilgrim. and A Perfect Spy. A perfect set-up for his millions of fans.

Stazione di Edimburgo. Binario numero uno. E' in partenza l'espresso per Londra. Bagley, un giovane prete in clergyman, cammina frettolosamente lungo il marciapiede, finchè raggiunge l'ultima vettura. La porta è chiusa. Bagley estrae dalla tasca una chiave a T e forza la serratura. Sale, percorre il corridoio: i primi tre scompartimenti sono vuoti. Giunto davanti al quarto si ferma e vi guarda dentro: c'è un solo passeggero, tutto vestito di grigio, seduto in un posto d'angolo, lo sguardo fisso sui cuscini che ha di fronte. Bagley fa scorrere la porta per aprirla ed entra. In una vettura riservata, ermeticamente chiusa e troppo vuota per non destare sospetti, s'incontrano "casualmente" due uomini tanto diversi fra loro: un giovane di buona famiglia che si presenta nelle vesti di prete, ma ostenta eccessivamente di appartenere all'M15 (il mitico servizio segreto militare inglese) e un funzionario statale troppo irascibile e nervoso per non avere qualcosa da nascondere. Le rituali frasi di cortesia, poi il dialogo si fa di istante in istante più incalzante e tortuoso. Un uomo ha tradito il paese in favore del KGB, lo ha fatto per amore del tipo che si dice "proibito". Un altro uomo ha il compito di strappargli una confessione.

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 unprecedented worldwide acclaim. In this thrilling and thought-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young English 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.

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. From the age of 17, he has been controlled by two mentors.

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.Rounding off his astonishing vision of a clandestine world, master storyteller le Carre perfects his art in Smiley's People. In London at dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people -- the no-men of no-man's land -- into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland as he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla.

Na een periode van interne problemen vormen geheime Russische geldtransacties in het Verre Oosten het begin voor een reeks nieuwe activiteiten van de Britse geheime dienst.

John le Carré'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.In this classic masterwork, le Carré expands upon his extraordinary vision of a secret world as George Smiley goes on the attack.In the wake of a demoralizing infiltration by a Soviet double agent, Smiley has been made ringmaster of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service). Determined to restore the organization's health and reputation, and bent on revenge, Smiley thrusts his own handpicked operative into action. Jerry Westerby, "The Honourable Schoolboy," is dispatched to the Far East. A burial ground of French, British, and American colonial cultures, the region is a fabled testing ground of patriotic allegiances?and a new showdown is about to begin.

From the author of THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY, SMILEY'S PEOPLE and THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, a tale of espionage in which George Smiley embarks on a mission to catch a Soviet mole who has been operating for some thirty years.

Politickošpionážní román zavádí do Bonnu v r. 1968, kdy Velká Británie usiluje o vstup do EHS a hledá podporu u spolkové vlády. Napínavý příběh, v němž pracovník bezpečnostní služby britského zahraničního úřadu pátrá v Bonnu po zmizelém úředníku britského velvyslanectví a s ními po zmizelém tajném spisu. Kniha načrtává věrohodný obraz kariéristických a politicky krátkozrakých pracovníků britské diplomatické služby a podává svědectví o degradaci britské mezinárodní prestiže ve světě. Doslov napsal Jindřich Volek.

Le Carré's hero is Aldo Cassidy, "the nav̐e and sentimental lover," a tycoon caught frantically between two astonishing loves. Trapped with him are Shamus, a wild artist who carouses by day or night, and Helen, the artist's nakedly alluring wife. Who will wind up with whom is only one of the mysteries in a world founded upon spontaneity and feeling

V detektivním románě z prostředí anglické soukromé školy, v příběhu zrcadlícím společenské přehrady mezi profesorským sborem a měšťanským prostředím, dojde k vraždě profesorovy manželky. Během pátrání po pachateli, v němž se vedle policie účastní i soukromý detektiv, dojde ještě k vraždě nepohodlného svědka. Příběh anglického autora, budovaný na spletitosti lidských charakterů, je završen překvapivým rozuzlením. Z anglického originálu A murder of quality, vydaného nakladatelstvím Penguin Books, London 1965, přeložila Anna van Dijková.

A box set of John le Carré's exceptional and thrilling first five novels, collected together for the first Call for the DeadA Murder of QualityThe Spy Who Came in from the ColdThe Looking Glass WarA Small Town in Germany

A novelist wouldn't dare invent the story contained herein. That a son of the British establishment could, during a 30 year secret service career, be a Communist agent is too far-fetched for fiction. Here's the story of how Philby did it, of what he did & its consequences; of how he betrayed his country, service, friends & the class which nurtured, shaped & protected him.Authors' PrefaceIntroduction1. BeginningsThe man in Dzerzinsky SquareBoyhood of three spiesThe slave of GodThe Cambridge MarxistsCommitment in ViennaJoining the establishment2. PenetrationThe Spanish decorationThe phony warThe secret worldThe rise of Kim Philby3. ExploitationThe new enemyThe Volkov incidentThe priceless secretsThe Albanian subversion4. DownfallCrack-upGetawayThe secret trialA field agent?Philby's comebackEndgame in BeirutThrough the curtain

John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. A man is missing. Harting, refugee background, a Junior Something in the British Embassy in Bonn. Gone with him are forty-three files, all of them Confidential or above. It is vital that the Germans do not learn that Harting is missing, nor that there's been a leak. With radical students and neo-Nazis rioting and critical negotiations under way in Brussels, the timing could not be worse and that's probably not an accident. Alan Turner, London's security officer, is sent to Bonn to find the missing man and files as Germany's past, present, and future threaten to collide in a nightmare of violence.

John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. THE LOOKING GLASS WAR Once upon a time the distinction had been clear: the Circus handled all things political while the Department dealt with matters military. But over the years, power shifted and the Circus elbowed the Department out. Now, suddenly, the Department has a job on its hands. Evidence suggests Soviet missiles are being positioned close to the German border. Vital film is missing and a courier is dead. Lacking active agents, but possessed of an outdated mandate to proceed, the Department has to find an old hand to prove its mettle. Fred Leiser, German-speaking Pole turned Englishman -- once a qualified radio operator, now involved in the motor trade -- must be called back to the colors and sent East....

George Smiley had liked the man and now the man was dead. Suicide. But why? An anonymous letter had alleged that Foreign Office man Samuel Fennan had been a member of the Communist Party as a student before the war. Nothing very unusual for his generation. Smiley had made it clear that the investigation, little more than a routine security check, was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed. Next day, Fennan was dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn’t go on. Page Numbers Source ISBN: B000H305PK

John le Carré'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. George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, and old friend and editor of a small newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried reader: "I'm not mad. And I know my husbad is trying to kill me." But the letter had arrived too late: its scribe, the wife of an assistant master at the distinguished Carne School, was already dead. So George Smiley went to Carne to listen, ask questions, and think. And to uncover, layer by layer, the complex network of skeletons and hatreds that comprised that little English institution.

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.

'The spy ... ': The story of a perilous assignment for the agent who wants to desperately end his career of espionage. 'A small town ... ': Alan Turner, London's security officer, is sent to Bonn to find a missing man and files as Germany's past, present, and future threaten to collide in a nightmare of violence. 'The looking glass war': Uncertain evidence suggests Soviet missiles being put in place close to the German border, while vital film has gone missing and a courier is dead.