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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.

Die wahnwitzige Geschichte um eine innerdeutsche Verwicklung mit Folgen - von Weltbestsellerautor John le Carré! Westdeutschland, auf dem Höhepunkt des Kalten Krieges. Herr Koorp, ein anständiger Kaufmann, pflegt ein gefälliges und selbstzufriedenes Dasein in Lübeck. Dann erhält er einen Anruf von seiner Schwester im fernen Ostdeutschland. Der gemeinsame Vater sei unzeitig verstorben. Dessen letzter Wunsch? In Lübeck begraben zu werden, ausgerechnet!

Der einfache Weg, mit Gewichtsproblemen Schluss zu machen: Viele Frauen kennen ihn, den berüchtigten Jo-Jo-Effekt, und möchten endlich dauerhaft abnehmen. Mit der berühmten Easyway-Methode hat Bestsellerautor Allen Carr bereits Millionen von Menschen von ihren Problemen befreit. Nun zeigt er, dass sein leichter und effektiver Weg auch Gewichtsprobleme löst - und das ohne Diät, ohne Schuldgefühle und ohne Medikamente. Mit seinen einfachen Anleitungen erreicht man mühelos eine gesündere Ernährung und langfristigen Gewichtsverlust.

1961: An der Berliner Mauer sterben zwei Menschen, Alec Leamas, britischer Top-Spion, und seine Freundin Liz Gold. 2017: George Smileys ehemaliger Assistent Peter Guilliam wird ins Innenministerium einbestellt. Die Kinder der Spione Elizabeth Gold und Alec Leamas drohen, die Regierung zu verklagen. Die Untersuchung wirft neue Fragen auf: Warum mussten die Agenten an der Berliner Mauer sterben? Hat der britische Geheimdienst sie zu leichtfertig geopfert? Halten die Motive von damals heute noch stand?

Das Russlandhaus ist die fesselnde Geschichte des englischen Verlegers Barley, der durch ein Buch mit Aphorismen Goethes, in dem geheime Lagepläne versteckt sind, zum Agenten wird.

Was macht das Leben eines Schriftstellers aus? Die Einsamkeit des Schreibens? Mit dem Welterfolg von Der Spion, der aus der Kälte kam gab es für John le Carré keinen Weg zurück in die Abgeschiedenheit. Er kündigte seine Stelle im diplomatischen Dienst, reiste zu Recherchezwecken um die halbe Welt und traf die Mächtigen aus Politik- und Zeitgeschehen, aber auch aus dem Filmgeschäft. So entstand eine realitätssatte Literatur, die den Nerv der Zeit trifft. John le Carré ist ein exzellenter und unabhängiger Beobachter, mit einem untrüglichen Gespür für Macht und Verrat.

2008, Gibraltar : commanditée par les Affaires étrangères britanniques et une société militaire privée américaine, une opération anti-terroriste vise un acheteur d'armes djihadiste. Kit Probyn, diplomate naïf, sera le "téléphone rouge" du ministre, alors que Toby Bell, son secrétaire particulier est étonnamment tenu à l'écart. 2011, Toby est convoqué par un Probyn à la retraite, à deux doigts de dévoiler les dessous de l'affaire, totalement véreuse. Choisira-t-il sa conscience contre sa loyauté envers l'État ?

Dolmetscher Bruno Salvador wird vom Britischen Geheimdienst für eine inoffizielle Konferenz zum Thema Kongo engagiert. Die krisengeschüttelte und an Rohstoffen reiche Region ist Brunos Heimat. Bahnt sich in dem fernen Land eine Katastrophe an? Bruno sucht Verbündete, die mit ihm für eine demokratische Zukunft des Kongo streiten. Doch plötzlich wird er zum Gejagten, denn in seinem Besitz befinden sich wertvolle Dokumente.

Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive.

"You are either good or bad, and both are dangerous". It would have been an easy job for the Circus: A can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all things political, while the Department dealt with matters military. But the Department has been moribund since the War, its resources siphoned away. Now, one of their agents is dead, and vital evidence verifying the presence of Soviet missiles near the West German border is gone. John Avery is the Department's younger member and its last hope.

In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin Wall, Alec Leamas watches as his last agent is shot dead by East German sentries. For Leamas, the head of Berlin Station, the Cold War is over. As he faces the prospect of retirement or worse - a desk job - Control offers him a unique opportunity for revenge. Assuming the guise of an embittered and dissolute ex-agent, Leamas is set up to trap Mundt, the deputy director of the East German Intelligence Service - with himself as the bait.

George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy - which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he concluded that the affable Samuel Fennan had nothing to hide. Why, then, did the man from the Foreign Office shoot himself in the head only hours later? Or did he? The heart-stopping tale of intrigue that launched both novelist and spy, Call for the Dead is an essential introduction to le Carre's chillingly amoral universe.

"Glasnost" is on everyone's lips, but the rules of the game haven’t changed for either side. When a beautiful Russian woman foists off a manuscript on an unwitting bystander at the Moscow Book Fair, it's a miracle that she flies under the Soviets' radar. Or does she? The woman's source (codename: Bluebird) will trust only Barley Blair, a whiskey-soaked gentleman publisher with a poet's heart.

Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs. Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband - an assistant master at Carne School - is trying to kill her. Reluctant to go to the police, Miss Brimley calls upon her old wartime colleague, George Smiley. Unfortunately, it's too late. Mrs. Rode has just been murdered. As Smiley takes up the investigation, he realizes that in life - as in espionage - nothing is quite what it appears.

A lawyer from the London finance house of Single & Single is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children's magician is asked by his bank to explain the unsolicited arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust. A freighter bound for Liverpool is boarded by Russian coast guards in the Black Sea. The celebrated London merchant venturer "Tiger" Single disappears into thin air.

A counter-terrorist operation, code-named Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: To capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: An ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister’s personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Three years later, a disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead.

The man he knew as "Control" is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement-especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with a shocking accusation: a Soviet mole has penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence. Relying only on his wits and a small, loyal cadre, Smiley recognizes the hand of Karla - his Moscow Centre nemesis - and sets a trap to catch the traitor.

John le Carré, the legendary author of sophisticated spy thrillers, is at the top of his game in this classic novel of a world in chaos. With the Cold War over, a new era of espionage has begun. In the power vacuum left by the Soviet Union, arms dealers and drug smugglers have risen to immense influence and wealth. The sinister master of them all is Richard Onslow Roper, the charming, ruthless Englishman whose operation seems untouchable.

From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels.

Mashed is an anthology of twisted humor, erotic horror, and culinary experimentation. Featuring demented authors from all over the world coming together to delight and terrify you. Mashed feels like Scary Movie meets 50 Shades on the Food Network! This collection of 17 sensually sinister tales that will leave you both scared and slightly turned on, while laughing out loud and contemplating whether or not you should have their next meal.