Author: John Le Carre. Published by Penguin Group, Toronto, ON., 2008, 1st Edition. Printed in USA. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book. Like New Condition Dust Jacket, unclipped. Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inch, 340 pages.
A MOST WANTED MAN, is a fiercely compelling novel set in Hamburg that plays to all of le Carré’s trademark strengths— Germany, rival intelligence operations, and sympathetic protagonists who discover a taste for moral integrity.
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation, Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career - or safety. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Freres, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. Annabel, Issa and Brue form an unlikely alliance and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror," the rival spies of Germany, England, and America, converge upon the innocents.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: David John Moore Cornwell, (October 19, 1931-December 12, 2020) better known by his pen name John le Carré, was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. "A sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era.
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