John Le Carré
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
While on a tennis vacation in Antigua, a young English couple are charmed by Dima, a Russian money launderer who has set his sights on the couple's fortune, and find themselves in a danger game with the British Secret Service, the Russian mafia, and others who want them dead.
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Language
English
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Description
Ted Mundy, former student radical and Cold War spy for the British, is living a quiet life as co-principal of an English-language school and tour guide in Germany when he is contacted by an old friend and colleague who tries to persuade Ted to accept a too-good-to-be-true offer from a mysterious philanthropist who is putting up $500,000 to turn the school into a vehicle for promoting international peace and understanding in the post-9/11 world.
Author
Series
George Smiley volume 9
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George...
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Language
English
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After being abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador's life is guided by a British Intelligence officer. He becomes an interpreter and stumbles upon a nasty plot and ends up courting danger from London to Congo to an island off Denmark.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Harry Pendel, tailor to royalty, presidents, politicians, and crooks, is recruited by British Intelligence to provide information on the state of affairs in Panama as the time approaches for the country to gain control of the Panama Canal, and Harry, who prefers that his past remain unknown, is only too willing to cooperate.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
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Description
From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues...
15) Smiley's people
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1980, c1979
Language
English
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Description
British intelligence agent George Smiley and his mortal enemy Karla, a Soviet agent, clash in a final confrontation.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
18) The Russia house
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
Barley Blair suddenly possesses a sheaf of military secrets that could profoundly alter the course of history. British Intelligence wants him to find out who gave him the documents and why.
19) A perfect spy
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
Magnus Pym, the perfect spy, has disappeared. His colleagues, superiors, and wife are baffled. During the search for Pym a clandestine chain of operations is unearthed.