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Not a page of this book is without intelligence and grace. The New York Times The mole has been purged from the Circus, and George Smiley, newly-made chief of the agency, has both rebuilding and revenge in his sights. To fully eradicate the threat, Smiley must trace back the treachery to its...

John Le Carr dominates the espionage form as no other writer has since Eric Ambler was at his peak. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In years past, the Circus oversaw political matters while their counterpart, the Department, dealt with intelligence more military in nature. These days, however...

The best spy novel of all time Publishers Weekly Its the early 1960s, and the newly built Berlin Wall looms large. British intelligence officer Alec Leamas, caught in its shadow, feels the chill all too keenly: the preceding years have seen nearly every member of his Berlin spy network either...

Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty Daily Telegraph For Alisa Brimley, editor of the small magazine Christian Voice, receiving a letter from a longtime subscriber might otherwise be a perfectly normal occasionexcept Stella Rode, the reader in question, writes that her husband is planning...

After an unremarkable interview, Circus agent George Smiley determines the subject of a standard security checka civil servant in the Foreign Office named Samuel Fennanposes no threat, nor presents any reason for suspicion of espionage. Hours later, Samuel Fennan is found dead by suicide...

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? Theres a mole in the Circus. Pulled out of (forced) retirement by his old protg, Peter Guillam, George Smiley must determine who among the high command at the British Secret Intelligence Service is in fact a Soviet spyone whos...

“[Le Carré’s] novels are so brilliant because they’re emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they’re novels.” —New York Times Book Review A thrilling tale for our times from the undisputed master of the spy genre Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. In this exquisitely told novel, John le Carré shows us once again his acute understanding of the world we live in and where power really lies. In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of...

An instant New York Times bestseller! In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years—the secret world itself. “[Le Carré] was often considered one of the finest novelists, period, since World War II. It’s not...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The undisputed master returns with his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years--a #1 New York Times bestseller and ideal holiday gift. Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the...

* SELECTED FOR 'A GOOD READ WITH BARACK OBAMA', NEW AUDIBLE PODCAST * THE FIFTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaster George Smiley has been...

Brought to you by Penguin. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in...

A living tradition of nature spirituality rooted in Celtic antiquity and revived to meet the challenges of contemporary life, Druidry offers people a path of harmony through reconnection with the green Earth. The Druidry Handbook is the first hands-on manual of traditional British Druid practice...

The most famous of all locked-room mysteries - a classic in the crime genre. 'The first deadly walking of the hollow man took place when the side streets of London were quiet with snow and the three coffins of the prophecy were filled at last...' The murderer of Dr Grimauld walked through a...

Einer der fünf Top-Leute des britschen Geheimdienstes muss ein Maulwurf sein, ein Top-Agent des KGB....

1961. L'espion britannique Alec Leamas et son amie Liz Gold trouvent la mort au pied du mur de Berlin. 2017. Peter Guillam, fidèle collègue et disciple de George Smiley dans les services de renseignement autrefois surnommés "le Cirque", est tiré de sa retraite en Bretagne par une lettre de son ancien employeur, qui le convoque à Londres. Pourquoi ? Ses activités d'agent secret pendant la guerre froide le rattrapent. Des opérations qui firent la gloire du Londres secret vont être minutieusement décortiquées par une nouvelle génération qui n'a que faire des luttes menées jadis par les Occidentaux contre le bloc communiste.

“Any reader who feared that the end of the Cold War would deprive Mr. le Carré of his subject can now feel a measure of relief. If anything, his subject of East-West misunderstanding has grown richer, and he now possesses vast new territories to mine" (The New York Times). New York Times...

From the very beginning of its two-decade run on radio, Suspense was tops in thriller entertainment! Its first year on the air brought together stories from such outstanding masters of the genre as John Dickson Carr, Dashiell Hammett, and Edgar Allan Poe! Tune in to 20 tense classics from Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills - starring Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Susan Hayward, Richard Dix, Lou Merrill, Agnes Moorehead, Frank Readick, Alice Frost, and more.

A haunted balcony in an Italian villa encourages a madman to try a second murder. 

A story about a bumbling, small town assistant police chief who's not as dumb as he seems to be. A wanted man is captured and later found hanging in his cell. The program has a surprise ending.