Single & Single by John Le Carre
When a corporate lawyer is murdered in Turkey, a string of events occur, from the arrest of a Russian freighter to the disappearance of a London financier. The logical connection must be one of love, deceit or the triumph of humanity.
Faultless fiction of the highest orderWritten with astonishing panache, subtle wit and tremendous style - Glasgow Herald SINGLE & SINGLE manages to make some serious points about history amid a riot of whoops and skips, genre flourishes and delighted winks to the gallery - Guardian'..more than just a great storyteller. In SINGLE & SINGLE he captures the Zeitgeist itself - Tom Wolfe The finest imaginative social historian of the post-war years - Times Literary Supplement Le Carre tells the story of SINGLE & SINGLE with his usual serpentine brilliance, using all his narrative devices, ruthlessly forcing the reader to wait for information until you feel you are going to burst - The Tablet Le Carre himself is a magician, using sleight-of-hand to reveal his story s secrets with breathtaking precision - Home and Country le Carre at his formidable best - Huddersfield Daily Examiner Le Carre is a history painter in the open air and a miniaturist indoors. He combines a choreographic mastery of the big moment - a revolution, an invasion, a race meeting - with an eye (and ear) for the tiny duplicities of human behaviour in small, secret rooms. One of our best living novelists - New Statesman
John le Carre was born in 1931. He attended the universities of Bern and Oxford and later taught at Eton. He spent five years in the British Secret Service.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340738993 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340738995 |
| Title | Single & Single |
| Author | John Le Carre |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2000-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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