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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9781416594888 ISBN: 1416594884 Label: Scribner Manufacturer: Scribner Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: October 07, 2008 Publisher: Scribner Studio: Scribner Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love or pity and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fabric of John le Carré's fiercely compelling and current novel A Most Wanted Man. A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career -- or safety. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Frères, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. Annabel, Issa and Brue form an unlikely alliance -- and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror," the rival spies of Germany, England and America converge upon the innocents. Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is a work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A hard book to reviewThe hardest books to review are the ones that don't make you feel powerfully one way or another. This is compounded in this book because it actually operates on two levels. This is a novel on the one hand but it is also political commentary on the other. As a pure novel I neither thought the book was fantastic nor was it horrible. I haven't read LeCarre before so I can't compare this book to earlier outings but I found the prose a bit tedious in places and the characters not quite as full developed ... Read More Rating:  - GREAT FROM THE GREATESTIf one reads the 90-odd reviews of A MOST WANTED MAN posted on Amazon, it quickly becomes obvious that one's view of this book has more to do with one's politics than with the merits of the book. I do not pretend to be the exception that proves that rule. Having said that, I believe A MOST WANTED MAN is a great book from the greatest writer of espionage novels in the English language. For 47 years, John LaCarre has been telling us fascinating stories that put human faces (often unattractive ... Read More Rating: - Classic LeCarre, including his political agendaRecently it came to light that John LeCarre considered defecting to the Soviets while in the British government's service. In this book he continues deeper on his politically left-driven agenda, and I must say it cheapens his otherwise classic prose. If you think of this piece as coming from Putin's poisoned publishers, then you might relax and enjoy it, with your intellectual shotgun by your side, that is. Rating: - le Carré is continuing his code of honor and attempting to tell everyone that the "emperor has no clothes."After reading the first few lines of A MOST WANTED MAN by John le Carré, the setting is not only clearly revealed, it presents a sinister sense of foreboding. Hamburg, Germany, is the background against which the story is juxtaposed. Some readers may be tipped off by this choice of location, where at least six of the 9/11 terrorists, including Mohammed Atta, were undisturbed in plotting their attack. In addition, the dark shadow of Baader-Meinhof lurks in the background. But as the novel opens ... Read More Rating: - A trop drawer storyObama was elected, and my reading of LeCarre's A Most Wanted Man gave me such great pleasure. May LeCarre have all the best for the coming year. In a phrase, we owe him for all the pleasure for all the books he has given us. 
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