A Most Wanted Man

Description

A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round 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. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Freres, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. A triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the so-called War on Terror, the spies of three nations converge upon the innocents. Poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is alive with humour, yet prickles with tension until the last heart-stopping page. It is also a work of deep humanity, and uncommon relevance to our times.

Author description

John le Carre was born in 1931. His recent novels include ABSOLUTE FRIENDS, THE MISSION SONG and THE CONSTANT GARDENER which was turned into an Oscar-winning film. A MOST WANTED MAN is his twenty-first novel. THE NAIVE AND SENTIMENTAL LOVER, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY, SMILEY'S PEOPLE, A PERFECT SPY, THE RUSSIA HOUSE, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY, THE NIGHT MANAGER, OUR GAME, SINGLE & SINGLE, THE SECRET PILGRIM, THE TAILOR OF PANAMA, THE LOOKING GLASS WAR, THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL, A MURDER OF QUALITY, CALL FOR THE DEAD, THE CONSTANT GARDENER, ABSOLUTE FRIENDS, THE MISSION SONG