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. This is an extraordinary new novel of love, deceit, family and the triumph of humanity. On le Carre's roller-coaster, we hurtle from a seaside haven in Devon through the sophisticated jungle of West End wheeler-dealing, the crime-driven streets of post-Communist Russia to a billionaires' fastness on the banks of the Bosphorus and a secret paradise in the High Caucasus. But "Single & Single" is above all a thrilling journey of the contemporary human heart - intimate, magical, riotous and subtly architected, showing us John le Carre at the height of his dramatic and creative powers.
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SINGLE AND SINGLE is not only well-written, but also well read by the author as an audiobook. It's opening chapter is worth the cover price alone, and has the authentic chill of Treasure Island or The Thirty Nine Stpes. Le Carre understands the beside-the-fire atmosphere of spinning the yarn and talking simultaneously to the reader and to the characters in the book. -- THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ... It has remained quite incredible to me how one author can so brilliantly impersonate all his characters ... He has long and far outdistanced Deighton ... The way le Carre hops from one character to another os always flawless ... Languages fall to hime like ninepins, and accents are lovingly and lavishly reproduced.' -- Peter Levi, The Spectator The biggest joy in this audio version ... Is le Carre's reading. He is a natural performer who clearly puts all those oddball characters in his books for the pleasure of finding voices for them. -- Peter Kingston, GUARDIAN 6.2.99
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Maße
Höhe: 139 mm
Breite: 107 mm
Dicke: 35 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-84032-196-8 (9781840321968)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
