Agent Running in the Field: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
Autor John le Carréen Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 16 oct 2019
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 light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.
Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all.Agent Running in the Fieldis a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.
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'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times'Guardian
'John le Carré is as recognisable a writer as Dickens or Austen'Financial Times
'No writer has ever been better at turning the act of two people talking politely to each other across a desk into a blood sport'Telegraph
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241402931
ISBN-10: 024140293X
Pagini: 1
Dimensiuni: 140 x 142 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 024140293X
Pagini: 1
Dimensiuni: 140 x 142 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
John
le
Carré
(Author,
Reader)
John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel,Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel,The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogyTinker Tailor Soldier Spy,The Honourable SchoolboyandSmiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir,The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel,A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020.
John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel,Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel,The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogyTinker Tailor Soldier Spy,The Honourable SchoolboyandSmiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir,The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel,A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020.
Recenzii
A
fine
piece
of
storytelling.
It
isa
neat,
compact,
slow-burning
tale
with
just
the
right
amount
of
twisting
and
turning
and
misdirection.
Divided
loyalties,
uncertain
motives,
Russian
agents,
bureaucratic
infighting,
jaded
spies,
tatty
offices
-
all
of
the
things
you
want
and
expect
from
a
high-quality
le
Carré
thriller
are
here
A veryclassyentertainment aboutpolitical ideals and deception. . .laced with fury at the senseless vandalism of Brexit and of Trump. Le Carré isthe master of the spy genre.
Le Carré deliversa tale for our times, replete with the classic seasoning of betrayal, secret state shenanigans and sad-eyed human frailty, all baked intoan oven-hot contemporary thriller. . .Agent Running in the Fieldisright on the money, in psychology as much as politics,a demonstration of the British spy thriller at its unputdownable best
Asingeniously structuredas any of le Carré's fiction, skilfully misdirecting the reader for much of the time
Amasterpiece
Master of the game
Le Carré's troubled new protagonist is developed with the author's customary skill . . .an impeccable piece of writing
No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times
The master is back on formin this tale of Russian subterfuge and a middle-aged spy 's suspicious badminton partner
Arich, beautifully written book studded with surprises. Narrative is a black art, and Le Carré is its grandmaster
Themaster espionagenovelist takes on Brexit and Trump in thistense and chilling portrait of today
Wonderful. . .sophisticated entertainment from an author who, at 88, remains sharper than most of us
John le Carré is as recognisable a writer as Dickens or Austen
A bang-up-to-date investigation of some of the big issues of our time
Le Carré demonstrates once again hissublime elegance as a writer, and his delicate touch when portraying human failings in the shadowy world of espionage . . .subtle, wry and seamless, it's an utter joy, from first page to last
A literary master for a generation
Blisteringly contemporary. . . Each new book from le Carré isrefreshingly different and uniquely compelling
One of those writers who will be read a century from now
Astute state-of-the-nation commentary
Classic, unmistakeable le Carré. . . it has the added bonus of some wonderfully vitriolic rants
Themaster of the espionage novelreturns with aperfectly nuancedstory of a spy on the scrapheap at the age of 47 and uncertain who to trust in the world of Brexit and divided loyalties
A veryclassyentertainment aboutpolitical ideals and deception. . .laced with fury at the senseless vandalism of Brexit and of Trump. Le Carré isthe master of the spy genre.
Le Carré deliversa tale for our times, replete with the classic seasoning of betrayal, secret state shenanigans and sad-eyed human frailty, all baked intoan oven-hot contemporary thriller. . .Agent Running in the Fieldisright on the money, in psychology as much as politics,a demonstration of the British spy thriller at its unputdownable best
Asingeniously structuredas any of le Carré's fiction, skilfully misdirecting the reader for much of the time
Amasterpiece
Master of the game
Le Carré's troubled new protagonist is developed with the author's customary skill . . .an impeccable piece of writing
No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times
The master is back on formin this tale of Russian subterfuge and a middle-aged spy 's suspicious badminton partner
Arich, beautifully written book studded with surprises. Narrative is a black art, and Le Carré is its grandmaster
Themaster espionagenovelist takes on Brexit and Trump in thistense and chilling portrait of today
Wonderful. . .sophisticated entertainment from an author who, at 88, remains sharper than most of us
John le Carré is as recognisable a writer as Dickens or Austen
A bang-up-to-date investigation of some of the big issues of our time
Le Carré demonstrates once again hissublime elegance as a writer, and his delicate touch when portraying human failings in the shadowy world of espionage . . .subtle, wry and seamless, it's an utter joy, from first page to last
A literary master for a generation
Blisteringly contemporary. . . Each new book from le Carré isrefreshingly different and uniquely compelling
One of those writers who will be read a century from now
Astute state-of-the-nation commentary
Classic, unmistakeable le Carré. . . it has the added bonus of some wonderfully vitriolic rants
Themaster of the espionage novelreturns with aperfectly nuancedstory of a spy on the scrapheap at the age of 47 and uncertain who to trust in the world of Brexit and divided loyalties