John Le Carr�e
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Formats
Description
"The beautiful Tessa Quayle is murdered near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, and her putative African lover and travelling companion has vanished from the scence of the crime. Tessa'a husband, a career diplomat and amateur gardener at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. On his way he meets terror, violence and conspiracy, but his greatest discovery is the woman he barely...
Series
George Smiley novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2002, c[1979]
Description
A former agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service is called back to root out a Russian spy who has infiltrated the organization's highest levels.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on: for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a secret agent. Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets. Dominated by a father who is also a confidence trickster on an epic scale, Pym has from the age of seventeen been controlled by two mentors. It is these two, racing each other and time itself, who are orchestrating the search to find the perfect spy....