John Le Carre
Author
Publisher
Viking
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le Carre Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright...
Author
Publisher
Coward-McCann
Pub. Date
[1964]
Edition
[1st American ed.]
Physical Desc
256 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A veteran spy wants to "come in from the cold" to retirement. He undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends defection and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (11 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A Delicate Truth opens in 2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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, John Le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his highly anticipated memoir, Le Carre is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Cold War, a former agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service is called back to root out a Russian spy who has infiltrated the organization's highest levels.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Smiley, wrestling with retirement and disillusionment, is summoned to a secret meeting with a member of the Cabinet Office. Evidence has emerged that the Circus has been infiltrated at the highest level by a Russian agent. Find the mole, George. Clean the stables. Do whatever is necessary. Reluctantly Smiley agrees, and so embarks on a dark journey into his past - a past filled with love, duplicity and betrayal. Starring the award-winning Simon Russell...