A Small Town in Germany - Softcover

Le Carré, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143189859 ISBN 13: 9780143189855

Publisher: Penguin Canada, 2013

Synopsis

 

The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty’s financially troubled government is seeking admission to Europe’s Common Market just as anti-British factions rise to power in Germany. Rioters are demanding reunification, and the last thing the Crown can afford is a scandal. Then Leo Harting—an embassy nobody—goes missing with a case full of confidential files. London sends Alan Turner to control the damage, but he soon realizes that neither side really wants Leo found—alive.

Set against the threat of a German-Soviet alliance, John le Carré’s A Small Town in Germany is a superb chronicle of Cold War paranoia and political compromise.

About this title

About the Author:

John le Carré was born in 1931. 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. His recent novels include The Constant Gardener, Absolute Friends, The Mission Song, A Most Wanted Man, and Our Kind of Traitor. A Delicate Truth is his twenty-third novel.

Review:

"Exciting, compulsively readable, and brilliantly plotted." - The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Canada
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0143189859
• ISBN 13: 9780143189855
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352