Single & Single
John le Carre
Mar 1999 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by John le Carre
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From New York Times bestselling author John le Carré comes a gripping post–Cold War espionage thriller about Russian organized crime, international finance, money laundering, and the dangerous collision between East and West.
A lawyer from a London finance house is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children's magician in the English countryside is asked to explain the arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust.
In Single & Single, le Carré masterfully establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious, complex, and compelling. He tells of corrupt liaisons between organized crime in the new Russian states and the world of legitimate finance in the West. He also paints an intimate portrait of two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering money; one betrayed by a son-in-law, the other betrayed—and redeemed—by a son.
“Any reader who feared that the end of the Cold War would deprive Mr. le Carré of his subject can now feel a measure of relief.” —The New York Times
A lawyer from a London finance house is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children's magician in the English countryside is asked to explain the arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust.
In Single & Single, le Carré masterfully establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious, complex, and compelling. He tells of corrupt liaisons between organized crime in the new Russian states and the world of legitimate finance in the West. He also paints an intimate portrait of two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering money; one betrayed by a son-in-law, the other betrayed—and redeemed—by a son.
“Any reader who feared that the end of the Cold War would deprive Mr. le Carré of his subject can now feel a measure of relief.” —The New York Times
From New York Times bestselling author John le Carré comes a gripping post–Cold War espionage thriller about Russian organized crime, international finance, money laundering, and the dangerous collision between East and West.
A lawyer from a London finance house is shot dead on a Turkish hillsid...
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John le Carré 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 Constant Gardner, The Little Drummer Girl, A Perfect Spy, The Russia House, Our Game, The Tailor of Panama, and Single & Single. He passed away in 2020.
John le Carré 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 Constant Gardner, The L...
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