The Tailor of Panama by John le Carre
Le Carré’s Panama– the young country due to gain control of the Canal December 31, 1999 — is a Casablanca without heroes, a hotbed of drugs, laundered money, and corruption. Seldom has the weight of global politics descended so heavily on such a tiny & unprepared nation.
And seldom has the hidden eye of British intelligence selected such an unlikely champion as tailor Harry Pendel, evader, charmer, and presiding genius of Pendel & Braithwaite Limitada.
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Yet the choice is not without its logic– everybody who is anybody in Central America passes through Pendel’s doors. He dresses everyone from the Panamanian President to politicos, crooks, and spies. His fitting room hears more confidences than a priest’s confessional…
ISBN: 0340684798
Condition: Edge-wear, spine-creasing visible.
Our Game by John le Carre
The Cold War is over. The Russians are our friends. Consequently, spy handler Tim “Timbo” Cranmer and his specially groomed double agent, Larry Pettifer, are put out to pasture. Tim, a somewhat stolid and unimaginative civil-servant type, has removed himself and his much younger mistress, Emma, to his late uncle’s vineyard in Somerset, while the idealistic Larry is uncomfortably ensconced as a professor at Bath University. Then Larry and Emma disappear. They have apparently run off together. They have also apparently relieved the Russians of more than 30 million pounds. The British police, guessing at Tim’s previous occupation, and the Russians, knowing it, suspect Tim’s active participation in, or at least knowledge of, the scheme. All parties concerned attempt to force him to reveal the whereabouts of the fugitives, which he honestly does not know. He does, however, still possess some of the skills of his former profession, and in a suspenseful journey through England, France, and finally Russia, he tracks down his friends while eluding his followers. In the process, readers learn much about the dissident Russian regions and some pre-and post-Stalinist history.
- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Coronet Books (March 4, 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0340640278
- ISBN-13: 978-0340640272
Shipping weight: 221g
This book is in an overall good condition. Pages are discoloured around the edges from age and there is the normal fold markings on the cover.
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