The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
 Amazon.com Review: It would be an international crime to reveal too much of the jeweled clockwork plot of Le Carré's first masterpiece, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. But we are at liberty to disclose that Graham Greene called it the " [... more]
$26.33
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Absolute Friends
Extremely disappointing effort: I found "Absolute Friends" at an "everything's a dollar" venue. While I wondered that it had been remaindered so quickly, I picked up a copy. After all, I had enjoyed much of the author's earlier work. [... more]
$31.98
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Absolute Friends
Extremely disappointing effort: I found "Absolute Friends" at an "everything's a dollar" venue. While I wondered that it had been remaindered so quickly, I picked up a copy. After all, I had enjoyed much of the author's earlier work. [... more]
$26.95
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A Perfect Spy
Difficult to Read and Low Engagement Spy Novel: This is a spy novel focused primarily on the development of characters--primarily two college-aged students who later become spies and the father of one. If you are expecting an engaging novel with lots of [... more]
$7.99
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
The perfect spy novel: I spent 35 years in the intelligence business. Unlike the hero of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, I dealt with mostly technical issues. I had a couple of dealings with the British and I came away from both thinking that a Brit with [... more]
$7.99
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Smiley's People
Smiley's swan song: Smiley's People is the final installment of the trilogy that tells of the struggle between George Smiley, British spy extraordinaire, and Karla, his Russian counterpart. George is called out of retirement to investigate the death of a [... more]
$25.00
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The Mission Song: A Novel
Mission Impossible: I'm a fan of the "Russian" Le Carre, the novelist of the Cold War. For me, Gorbachev was the worst thing that could have happened to this wonderful writer. Africa is not a successful substitute and I think I know why. The [... more]
$26.99
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Absolute Friends
Strongly Influenced by His Mentor Graham Greene: "Absolute Friends," a 2003 publication by renowned British spy author John LeCarre, is considered by many reviewers to be one of his greatest works. It surely is passionate, powerful, and well- [... more]
$7.99
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The Night Manager: New York Times bestseller
Pine's quest: Jonathan Pine, sometime hotelier, soldier, killer, lover and agent, is swept up in a complex international intrigue. Weapons for sale is the pivot around which money, power and even romance impinge on Jonathan's life. The many roles, varied [... more]
$4.99
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Our Game
Great read: First, out of most of the spy novel writers le Carre does the best research, and not just his facts, more importantly he has a good understanding of the problems he describes as the background of his plot. Second, his novels aren't [... more]
$19.00
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The Naive and Sentimental Lover
uuuuuggggghhhh: The only reason I give this book one star is because it cannot be rated any lower. I have read every novel authored by Le Carre and I rate him as one of, if not THE best writers in the espionage/cold-war genre. He is one of my favorite [... more]
$7.99
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The Mission Song: A Novel
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Translator?: Another in the long line of cold war and post-cold war John LeCarre's thrillers, again with the optimistic proposal that ordinary, sometimes unremarkable people, can achieve the extraordinary. Here we meet a top [... more]
$39.98
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