John Le Carré
Author
Series
George Smiley novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
"The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book--his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years. 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...
2) Silverview
Author
Language
English
Description
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns...
Author
Series
Smiley volume 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
British agent George Smiley hunts for a mole in the Secret Service and begins his epic game of international chess with his Soviet counterpart, an agent named Karla.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer, who wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal private secretary, Toby Bell,...
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A romantic triangle on a retired British intelligence officer, his girl and the spy who stole her. It is told against the backdrop of the rebellion in Chechnya and the international intrigues surrounding it. A tale of the moral wastes of post-Cold War Europe in both East and West. By the author of The Night Manager.
Author
Series
Lekalei zuo pin volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Traditional Chinese edition of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
「他的毀滅,正是他的成就。」 • 諜報小說經典巨作,暢銷半世紀,全球銷售大破三千五百萬冊! • 日本早川文庫讀者票選 間諜小說第一名。 •《出版人週刊》Publishers Weekly Top 15 Spy Novels 最佳間諜小說第一名。 • 獲選《TIMES》All Time 100 Greatest Novels《時代》雜誌百大英文小說。...
Author
Series
Lekalei zuo pin volume 25
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Traditional Chinese edition of A Legacy of Spies
他抬起頭。 我沒有重見故人的急切心情,只意識到即將到來的清算。 你真的是利馬斯的兒子? 何不立刻直接衝著我來,和我正面交鋒? 暢銷全球三千五百萬冊、諜報經典巨作《冷戰諜魂》之故事終章, 勒卡雷最新作品,諜報小說史上最深沉的角色——喬治・史邁利的復歸登場。 槍聲、煙硝散去後,柏林圍牆旁的那一夜,故事仍未結束……...
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The bespectacled spymaster is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the 'Circus'--and he returns with a vengeance. The murder of an emigre Soviet General who was also a British agent, sends him digging into the past on a twisted trail across Europe that moves, inexorably, towards a final showdown with his old adversary, Karla of Moscow Centre.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
George Smiley goes to the aid of his former colleague, Ailsa Brimley after she receives a letter from a woman predicting her own murder and naming her husband as the killer. After the woman is found dead, they uncover secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
While on vacation, a married couple unwittingly befriends a flamboyant and charismatic Russian named Dima, who, unbeknownst to them, is a kingpin money launderer for the mafia. When Dima confides to his new friends that he plans to escape from the mob, they're quickly swept into the dangerous world of international espionage. The unlikely companions must undertake a perilous journey through Paris, Bern, and London in order to save Dima and his family....
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Pine is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with an English billionaire.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Pine is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with an English billionaire.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Cold War, a precarious operation goes deadly wrong, and the head of British Intelligence wonders if a double agent is leaking vital secrets. Brought out of retirement to expose the potential mole, master spy George Smiley is the only one who can be trusted to expose one of their own. Or can he? As the emotional and physical tolls mount on the high-ranking suspects, Smiley will be forced into the ultimate international spy game...
Author
Series
George Smiley novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
With his time in British intelligence drawing to a close, veteran spy "Ned" asks his colleague George Smiley to address his graduating class of trainee spies in Sarratt. Smiley's remarks on espionage in the wake of the Cold War serve as trigger and backdrop for a series of recollections and memories of Ned's many decades as a British spy.
Both a reminiscence of times past and a meditation on the future, “The Secret Pilgrim,” published more than...
Author
Series
Smiley volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In years past, the Circus oversaw political matters while their counterpart, the Department, dealt with intelligence more military in nature. These days, however, the Circus' influence looms large, while the Department is relegated to the doldrums of bureaucracy and red tape.
With the Cold War at a fever pitch, though, a potential assignment is only ever one defector-turned-informant away. Alerted to the possibility of missile activity from the Soviets...