John Le Carré

Broschiertes Buch

The Honourable Schoolboy

A George Smiley Novel

Beschreibung

Nach der Enttarnung eines Verräters in den eigenen Reihen steht George Smiley vor der schweren Aufgabe, den 'Circus' so schnell wie möglich neu aufzubauen. Doch "Karla", der die Operation der Sowjets gegen den britischen Geheimdienst leitet, hat bereits einen neuen Feldzug eröffnet. Die Spur führt nach Hongkong und Smiley schickt seinen besten Agenten in den Fernen Osten. Es wird eine gefährliche Odyssee...

Autor

John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a con man, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on December 12, 2020.

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Produktdetails

• George Smiley Vol.6
• Verlag: Penguin US
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 136mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780143119739
• ISBN-10: 0143119737
• Artikelnr.: 32944832