A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré audiobook

A Most Wanted Man

By John le Carré
Read by John le Carré

Simon & Schuster Audio
5.85 Hours Abridged
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    ISBN: 9780743579247

A half-starved young Russian man is smuggled into Hamburg in the dead of night with an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation, even if the price is her career—and her safety. Searching for clues to his mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank—and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the “War on Terror,” the rival spies of three nations converge upon the innocents. Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is a work of deep humanity with uncommon relevance to our times.

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Summary

Summary

A New York Times bestseller

One of the 2008 New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Fiction

A 2008 Christian Science Monitor Book of the Year for Fiction

Selected for the October 2008 Indie Next List

A Publishers Weekly bestseller

A half-starved young Russian man is smuggled into Hamburg in the dead of night with an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa.

Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation, even if the price is her career—and her safety. Searching for clues to his mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank—and a triangle of impossible loves is born.

Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the “War on Terror,” the rival spies of three nations converge upon the innocents.

Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is a work of deep humanity with uncommon relevance to our times.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“This is le Carré's strongest, most powerful novel…Extraordinary.” New York Times Book Review
“Intricately plotted, beautifully written, propulsive, morally engaged, but timely as today's headlines…The protagonists are brilliantly drawn.” Los Angeles Times 
“What le Carré has always done terrifically is to capture the nuances of the spying game. His spooks are wonderful…In A Most Wanted Man you are, unlike the modern world, in thrillingly deft, safe hands.” Guardian (London)
“Astounding, nearly perfect…beautifully paced, awesomely crafted…desperately readable.” San Francisco Chronicle 
“Le Carré's…secret agents exist in a world of stalemate, moral compromise, ambiguity and betrayal…Like his books, le Carré is a mix of unblinking realism and hopeful humanism.” Associated Press
“An instant classic…A provocative and incendiary ending that only le Carré, the master, can pull off.” USA Today 
“As sharp as he ever was…Le Carré…remains a class above his neighbors on the bestseller list.” Chicago Sun-Times 
“Highly recommended.” Library Journal 

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Author Bio: John le Carré

Author Bio: John le Carré

John le Carré, the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (1931–2020), was an English author of espionage novels. Eight of his novels made the #1 spot on the New York Times bestsellers list between 1983 and 2017. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, his third book, secured him a worldwide reputation as one of the greatest spy novelists in history. Numerous major motion pictures have been made from his novels, as well as several television series. After attending the universities at Berne and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service, serving briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. Being a member of MI6 when he wrote his first novel, Call for the Dead in 1961 in Hamburg, it necessitated the use of a nom de plume, by which he continued to be known. His writing earned him several honorary doctorate degrees and the Somerset Maugham Award, the Goethe Medal, and the Olof Palme Prize.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Category: Fiction/Thrillers/Suspense
Runtime: 5.85
Audience: Adult
Language: English