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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...
13) A delicate truth
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2013.
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English
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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,...
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George Smiley novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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On its publication In 1964, John le Carre's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold forever changed the landscape of spy fiction. Le Carre combined the inside knowledge of his years in British intelligence with the skills of the best novelists to produce a story as taut as it is twisting, unlike any previously experienced, which transports us back to the shadowy years in the early 1960s when the Berlin Wall went up and the Cold War came to life. When the...
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Lekalei zuo pin volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
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中文(繁體)
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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。...
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Lekalei zuo pin volume 25
Pub. Date
2020.
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中文(繁體)
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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……...
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2002.
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English
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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.
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[2004]
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English
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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.
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[2016]
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English
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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....
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[2011]
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English
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"No doubt remains; a mole has infiltrated the highest level of the Circus, code name for British Secret Intelligence Service. Sidelined agent George Smiley is covertly tapped to root out the mole, a task that requires a painstaking dig through the labyrinths of Cold War-era espionage and his own past."--Container.
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