George Smiley serie #1

Call for the Dead

Name: Call for the Dead
Brand: Le Carré, John
SKU: AV-9780141198286
Price: 6.95 EUR
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Rating: 3.5 (100 reviews)

3.5

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Le Pitch

Présentation de l'éditeur After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined?Le Carré's debut novel, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit. Revue de presse Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense ( Observer) Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard ( Sunday Telegraph) Biographie de l'auteur John le Carré was educated at the University of Berne (where he studied German literature for a year) and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in modern languages. From 1959 to 1964 he was a member of the British Foreign Service, serving first as Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Bonn and subsequently as Political Consul in Hamburg. He started writing novels in 1961, and since then has published twenty-one titles. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

George Smiley serie #1

Call for the Dead

3.5

(100)

2,95 €

10,61 € -72%

Le Pitch

Présentation de l'éditeur After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined?Le Carré's debut novel, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit. Revue de presse Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense ( Observer) Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard ( Sunday Telegraph) Biographie de l'auteur John le Carré was educated at the University of Berne (where he studied German literature for a year) and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in modern languages. From 1959 to 1964 he was a member of the British Foreign Service, serving first as Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Bonn and subsequently as Political Consul in Hamburg. He started writing novels in 1961, and since then has published twenty-one titles. Afficher moinsAfficher plus