Call for the Dead

A Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carré's own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness. Beginning with his 1940s childhood, it includes accounts of his National Service and his time at Oxford, and his days teaching the 'chinless, pointy-nosed gooseberry-eyed British lords' at Eton. It describes his entry into MI5 and the rise of the Iron Curtain, and the flowering of his career as a novelist in reaction to the building of the Berlin Wall. Through his letters we travel with him from the Second World War period to the immediate moment in which we live. We find le Carré writing to Sir Alec Guinness to persuade him to take on the role of George Smiley, and later arguing the immorality of the War on Terror with the chief of the German internal security s...

„Jak to się dobrze czyta! To jak dźwięk trąbki, który przeszywa nas do kości i do bólu. Bo John le Carré nie tylko żegna się ze światem świetną powieścią. On ostrzega” The Washington Post. Julian Lawndsley porzucił intratną posadę w londyńskim City, by cieszyć się znacznie prostszym życiem właściciela księgarni w nadmorskim, angielskim miasteczku. Niestety po kilku miesiącach spokój Juliana zakłóca Edward, tajemniczy Polak, emigrant mieszkający w Silverview, wielkiej willi na skraju miasteczka. Edward trochę za dużo wie o rodzinnej historii Juliana i za bardzo interesuje się jego skromną księgarnią. Tymczasem w Londynie pewien wysoko postawiony pracownik wywiadu brytyjskiego otrzymuje list z ostrzeżeniem o niebezpiecznym przecieku informacji. Śled...

Nat, 47-letni weteran brytyjskich służb specjalnych, ma wrażenie, że jego kariera agenta dobiegła końca. Wrócił do Londynu ze swoją anielsko cierpliwą żoną – Prue. Jednak w obliczu rosnącego zagrożenia ze strony Moskwy biuro ma dla niego jeszcze jedno zadanie. Nat ma przejąć The Haven, nieistniejącą już podstację London General z bandą szpiegów. Mocnym atutem zespołu jest młoda Florence, która ma oko na Departament ds. Rosji, i (zamieszany w rosyjskie sprawy) wpływowy ukraiński oligarcha. Nat jest nie tylko szpiegiem, ale także zapalonym graczem w badmintona. W poniedziałkowe wieczory zwykle grywa z o połowę od niego młodszym, introspekcyjnym i samotnym Edem. Ed nie znosi Brexitu, Trumpa i swojej pracy w bezdusznej agencji medialnej. I to Ed , osoba, po kt...

A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaster George Smiley has been brought out of retirement in order to hunt down the traitor at the very heart of the Circus - even though it may be one of those closest to him. The first part of le Carré's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart.

Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in the shadow of the Berlin Wall for his British masters. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism. But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended, it may prove the worst thing he could ever have done. Le Carré's breakthrough work of 1963 was an award-winning number one global bestseller and brought him international renown, redefining the spy story as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining.

The concluding part of John le Carre's celebrated Karla Trilogy, Smiley's People sees the last confrontation between the indefatigable spymaster George Smiley and his great enemy, as their rivalry comes to a shattering end. A Soviet defector has been assassinated on English soil, and George Smiley is called back to the Circus to clear up - and cover up - the mess. But what he discovers sends him delving into the past, on a trail through Hamburg and Paris to Cold War Berlin - and a final showdown with his elusive nemesis, Karla. 'An enormously skilled and satisfying work' Newsweek'We are all Smiley's people, a kind of secular god of intelligence' - New Yorker

George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy. The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplighters, scalp-hunters and pavement artists, where men are turned, burned or bought for stock. Smiley's mission is to catch a Moscow Centre mole burrowed thirty years deep into the Circus itself.

Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young actress, is lured into 'the theatre of the real' by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist. The Little Drummer Girlis a thrilling, deeply moving and courageous novel of our times.

?A work of rare brilliance? The Times Charmer, fabulist and tailor to Panama?s rich and powerful, Harry Pendel loves to tell stories. But when the British spy Andrew Osnard - a man of large appetites, for women, information and above all money - walks into his shop, Harry?s fantastical inventions take on a life of their own. Soon he finds himself out of his depth in an international game he can never hope to win. Le Carre?s savage satire on the espionage trade is set in a corrupt universe without heroes or honour, where the innocent are collateral damage and treachery plays out as tragic farce. ?A tour de force in which almost every convention of the classic spy novel is violated? The New York Times Book Review

Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism. But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended, Leamas's mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have done. In le Carré's breakthrough work of 1963, the spy story is reborn as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is one of 25 books chosen to launch the inaugural World Bo...

Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between, the beautiful Katya. Both are lonely and disillusioned. Each is increasingly certain that if the human race is to have any future, all must betray their countries ... In his first post-glasnost spy novel, le Carré captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw...

A Russian mole has infiltrated the British establishment - and the spymaster Smiley must dig them out... George Smiley, formerly of the Secret Intelligence Service, is contemplating his new life in retirement when he is called back on an unexpected mission. His task is to hunt down an agent implanted by Moscow Central at the very heart of the Circus - one who has been buried deep there for years. The dogged, troubled Smiley can discount nobody from being the traitor, even if it is one of those closest to him.