Agent Running In The Field: John le Carré - Softcover

Le Carre John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241401216 ISBN 13: 9780241401217

Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, 2019

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A very classy entertainment about political ideals and deception . . . laced with fury at the senseless vandalism of Brexit and of Trump. Le Carré is the master of the spy genre. (Guardian)

Blisteringly contemporary . . . Each new book from le Carré is refreshingly different and uniquely compelling (Economist)

No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times (Guardian)

One of those writers who will be read a century from now

A literary master for a generation (Observer)

'John le Carré is as recognisable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Times (Financial Times)

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'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times' Guardian
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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.
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'John le Carré is as recognisable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Times

'No writer has ever been better at turning the act of two people talking politely to each other across a desk into a blood sport' Telegraph

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0241401216
• ISBN 13: 9780241401217
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1