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? Blair, jazz-loving, drink-marinated, dishevelled, is hardly to the taste of the spymasters, yet he has to be used - sent to the Soviet Union to make contact. Katya, the Moscow intermediary, is beautiful, thoughtful, equally sceptical of all state ideology. Together, as the safe cliches of hostility disintegrate, they may represent the future - an idea that is anathema to the entrenched espionage professionals on both sides. The Russia House: a spy story, a love story, and a fable for our time.
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"'Beneath the masterly action pulses a brand new vein of terror... Le Carre has achieved clarity of line, splendour of pace' The Mail on Sunday; 'Afire and thought-provoking... A treatise on our times' Time Magazine"
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Höhe: 17 mm
Breite: 106 mm
Dicke: 140 mm
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978-1-85998-731-5 (9781859987315)
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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 Foreign Service
