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Richard Hannay adventures volume 1
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The novel of international intrigue and adventure that set the standard for the modern spy thriller One May evening in 1914, an ordinary Londoner named Richard Hannay receives word of an anarchist plot to assassinate the prime minister of Greece. A few nights later, the eccentric American who revealed the conspiracy is found stabbed to death in Hannay's flat. With only the dead man's encrypted notes to guide him, Hannay must try to foil the assassination...
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"In this definitive biography Adam Sisman reveals the man behind the bestselling persona. In John le Carré, Sisman shines a spotlight on David Cornwell, an expert at hiding in plain sight. Of course, the pseudonym John le Carré has helped to keep the public at a distance. Sisman probes Cornwell's unusual upbringing, abandoned by his mother at the age of only five and raised by his con man father (when not in prison), and explores his background...
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2016.
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"From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues...
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MI5 agents Bill Parsons and Jack Delaney take the reader on a fast, action packed escapade on the trail of Russian double agents.
This book was inspired by the writings of the legendary espionage writer David John Moor Cornwell (1931-2020) who lived for 89 years and was better known by his pen name of John le Carre' and he will put pen to paper no more. Le Carre' means 'the square' which is fitting for him, being bordered by four equal sides enclosing...
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As the war approaches its end, Prince once more has to risk everything.
Berlin, 1939: A German intelligence officer learns a top agent is quickly moving up the British Army ranks. He bides his time.
Arnhem, 1944: British paratroopers have been slaughtered in one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War. A shell shocked officer is convinced: the Germans knew they were coming.
But who betrayed them?
Back in London, Richard Prince, detective...
8) End of Spies
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Europe, 1945: no longer at war but not yet at peace. The gripping finale to the bestselling Richard Prince espionage thrillers.
British agent Richard Prince and the Danish spy Hanne Jakobsen come together for a vital mission: to find a Nazi war criminal responsible for the murder of fellow British agents.
The hunt takes them on a perilous journey through Europe, a continent living on its nerves in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War....
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré, which follows Alec Leamas, a cynical veteran intelligence agent who embarks on one last mission to entrap the head of the East German intelligence services. In its bleak depiction of the deception and betrayal that characterise...
10) The Constant Gardener by John le Carré (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Constant Gardener with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Constant Gardener by John le Carré, which follows a British diplomat in Kenya as he comes to terms with the shocking murder of his wife Tessa. Before her untimely death, Tessa was investigating the abuses of a large pharmaceutical company in the country, which was knowingly using African...
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For Fans of Both Real Spy Dramas and Fictional Ones-both Ben Macintyre and John le Carré-the Story of Why Spies Spy. Why do people put their lives at risk to collect intelligence? How do intelligence services ensure that the agents they recruit do their bidding and don't betray them? What makes the perfect spy? Drawing on interviews with active and former British, American, Russian, European, and Asian intelligence officers and agents, Michael...
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A stunning adventure in war-torn FranceSpring of 1944 and Rosie Ewing is returning to German-occupied France. By air, this time. She's carrying a radio, half a million francs, a pistol and two cyanide capsules to Finistere in north-west Brittany. With D-Day looming, Rosie knows that the man who'll be meeting her on the ground tonight may be a traitor. And that the likely end of the road for female agents is Ravensbrück – or l'enfer des femmes,...
13) The Swiss Spy
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A thrilling tale based on top-secret Nazi plans to invade the Soviet Union...
All spies have secrets, but Henry Hunter has more than most. After he is stopped by British Intelligence at Croydon airport on the eve of the Second World War, he discovers one more devastating than any before.
From Switzerland he embarks on a series of increasingly perilous missions into Nazi Germany, all while having to cope with various identities and competing spymasters.
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14) Into the Fire
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Summer 1943; an undercover mission to occupied France…Rosie Ewing is an agent of SOE – Special Operations Executive – and a 'pianist': Resistance slang for radio operator. Their average life expectancy is six weeks. But Rosie is brighter than most, well-aware of the consequences of a second's carelessness, or bad luck, or treachery. Or a fellow agent crumbling under torture, naming names. Her brief is to set up a new network in Rouen, where...
15) Sea of Spies
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A nest of espionage. A break for the border. A race to survive.
The Allies are desperate to stop neutral Turkey supplying vital materials to the Nazis — materials which could help them win the war. But then a British agent makes a fatal mistake, and disappears in Istanbul.
In England, detective turned spy Richard Prince — back from a clandestine mission in Nazi-occupied Europe — is hunting for his lost son. Before long he is drawn into a dangerous...
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Full of intrigue and peril, this gripping WWII spy series will have you sitting on the edge of your seat. Includes all four books in The Richard Prince Thrillers series; Prince of Spies, Sea of Spies, Ring of Spies and End of Spies.
Prince of Spies: 1942. A German spy comes ashore on a desolate stretch of Lincolnshire beach. He is hunted down by a young detective, Richard Prince. The secret services need a man like him...In occupied Europe, Denmark...
17) Vienna Spies
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A new and terrifying enemy rears its head at last...
With the end of the Second World War in sight, the Allies begin to divide up the spoils and it proves to be a dangerous game.
The British have become aware that, contrary to prior agreements, the Soviet Union is intent on controlling Austria once the war ends. Major Edgar is tasked with the job of establishing an espionage unit in Vienna to monitor the situation.
He sends in two agents - Rolf...
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A unique and captivating literary history of the twentieth century drawn from the first sixty years of the Book-of-the-Month Club From The Sun Also Rises to The Accidental Tourist, the judges, editors, and reviewers of the Book-of-the-Month Club help readers all across America find their next favorite book. In this comprehensive anthology compiled from the Club's monthly News, astute reviewers praise and critique a diverse array of authors including...
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From a former Israeli operative-and now a #1 London Times bestseller-comes the most authentic spy thriller of the year, perfect for fans of John Le Carré and Homeland. When an Israeli tech executive disappears from Charles de Gaulle airport with a woman in red at his side, logic dictates youthful indiscretion. But Israel is on a state of high alert nonetheless. And for Commissaire Léger of the Paris Police Force, all coincidences are suspect. When...
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The Allies have landed; the liberation of Europe has begun.
In the Pas de Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations Executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears.
In London, her husband Owen Quinn, an officer with Royal Navy Intelligence, discovers the truth about her role in the Allies' sophisticated deception at the heart of D-Day.
Appalled but determined, Quinn sets off on a perilous hunt through France...
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