SINGLE AND SINGLE - Signed First Printing
Language: English
Published by London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Northern Lights Rare Books and Prints, Sastamala, FinlandNorthern Lights Rare Books and Prints
AbeBooks seller since January 16, 2020
Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 118.28
Quantity: 1 available
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First Printing. A nice copy, SIGNED directly to the title page by John Le Carre. With the Dillons bookstore "Signed by author" wraparound band. An unread copy, square and tight, opened only for the author to sign it would seem.
Seller Inventory # 2203224
- Title
- SINGLE AND SINGLE - Signed First Printing
- Author
- Le Carre, John
- Publisher
- London: Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0340738979
- ISBN 13
- 9780340738979
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Author-Signed First Editions
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review
The magician is Oliver Single, the tormented son of Tiger Single, a rogue banker the Financial Times calls "the knight errant of Gorbachev's New East." In fact, Tiger is sinking his fangs into that crucial one-tenth of world trade free of pesky regulations--illegal drugs--and secretly selling donated disaster-relief blood. Mum's the word in Tiger's mob: as the lawyer's executioner notes, "Is not convenient to hear that American capitalists are bleeding poor nations literally."
Oliver comes in from the cold to help spymaster Brock track Tiger down. That £30 sterling signified Judas's silver, but Oliver yearns to save Tiger's life, too. Le Carré wizardly juggles dozens of characters in a zigzag, globetrotting plot. You-are-there realism, narrative drive, pitch-perfect dialog--why can't movies be this good? Like lightning, le Carré's metaphors both dazzle and blazingly illuminate the world.
Ex-spy le Carré was there when the Berlin Wall went up, and his spy craft is legendarily realistic. His female spy/love interest is less so--the opposite of a femme fatale, she might be termed a "deus sex machina." But the book's crucial father-son relationship is quite real, because, like the irresistible villain of A Perfect Spy, Tiger is based on le Carré's own con-man dad. The cold war is over, but le Carré is hot. And he will endure. --Tim Appelo
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Northern Lights Rare Books and Prints
Sastamala, Finland
AbeBooks seller since January 16, 2020
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