Peter Guillam, kolega a žák George Smileyho z britské tajné služby, známé též jako Cirkus, odchází na odpočinek na rodinnou farmu na jih Anglie, avšak náhle obdrží dopis od bývalého zaměstnavatele, který ho předvolává zpátky do Londýna. Důvod? Studená válka vrhá svůj stín. Zpravodajské operace, jež dříve byly chloubou londýnského centra, jsou nyní hodnoceny generací, která už studenou válku nezažila. Někdo musí zaplatit za prolití nevinné krve ve jménu velké věci.
In this, the sequel to Beaches, Cee Cee Bloom, the famous singer and movie star, has been entrusted with the eight-year-old daughter of her friend Bertie, after the latter's tragic death. Then, with a devastating discovery, Cee Cee is forced to come to terms with the depth of her commitment.
V pořadí osmnáctý román Johna le Carré zachycuje urputný boj diplomata, který se pokouší objasnit příčinu smrti své ženy. Simon Quayle, anglický diplomat v Nairobi, se dozvídá o smrti své manželky Tessy, která zahynula nedaleko jezera Tuscana, kde byla na misi společně se svým kolegou-lékařem Arnoldem Bluhmem. Tessa byla pravděpodobně zavražděna. Simonovi, nepříliš úspěšnému v diplomacii, ale o to zapálenějšímu zahradníkovi, se podaří získat usvědčující dokumenty o testování nových léků na nejchudších afrických ženách. Tím se stává pro někoho v zákulisí velmi nepohodlným. Je nucen Afriku opustit, ale v komplikovaném pátrání přesto neustane. Kam až vedou nitky spletitého případu?
A young Spaniard sets off for South America in 1518 with Cortes and the Conquistadors, propelled by his love's declaration that she will not marry until he returns with a special treasure -- a symbol of their love -- that no man or woman has ever before received. But during his travels he falls in love with Ignacia, a native woman who introduces him to the secrets of the most delicious drink he has ever tasted: chocolate. Their passionate affair is cut short by the chaotic conquest of Mexico. So begins this charming and adventurous story about the magical substance we now know as chocolate, and of the passions and obsessions it has inspired from its earliest days. Our hero later discovers that his lover had secretly added the elixir to life to his chocolate drink. This allows him to travel through history: to Paris during the time of the Revolution, to Vienna in the nineteenth century, to late Victorian England, and to Hershey Pennsylvania -- accompanied all the while by his trusty greyhound, Pedro. unable to die, he searches to recapture the magic of Ignacia's chocolate -- and to learn to love life just as fully. Playful and intelligent, this is a romantic story about love and loss inspired by a very enchanting substance.
Le Carré's Panama—the young country of 2.5 million souls which, on December 31, 1999, will gain full control of the Panama Canal—is a Casablanca without heroes, a hotbed of drugs, laundered money and corruption.Seldom has the weight of global politics descended so heavily on such a tiny and unprepared nation. And seldom has the hidden eye of British Intelligence selected such an unlikely champion as Harry Pendel—a charmer, a dreamer, an evader, a fabulist and presiding genius of the house of Pendel & Braithwaite Co. Limitada, Tailors to Royalty, formerly of London and presently of Panama City.Yet there is a logic to the spies' choice. Everybody who is anybody in Central America passes through Pendel's doors. He dresses politicos and crooks and conmen. His fitting room hears more confidences than a priest's confessional. And when Harry Pendel doesn't hear things as such—well, he hears them anyway, by other means.For what is a tailor for, if not to disduise reality with appearance? What is truth if not the plaything of the artist? And what are spies and politicians and journalists if not themselves selectors and manipulators of the truth for their own ends?In a thrilling, hilarious novel, le Carré has provided us with a satire about the fate of truth in modern times. Once again, he has effortlessly expanded the borders of the spy story to bring us a magnificent entertainment straight out of the pages of tomorrow's history.JOHN LE CARRÉ was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Bern and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service. His third novel, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was solidified by the acclaim for his trilogy, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. His mostly autobiographical novel, A Perfect Spy, wa followed by The Russia House, The Night Manager and Our Game. The Tailor of Panama is his sixteenth novel.John le Carré lives in Cornwall, England.
Als een man de fantastische familiegschiedenis zoals zijn grootvader die vertelde op waarheidsgehalte toetst, ontdekt hij dat de werkelijkheid nog schokkender is.
De tour is een jaarlijks terugkerende titanenstrijd. Heldendom, verraad, spektakel, uithoudingsvermogen en psychologische spelletjes, daar gaat het om. De tour van 1986 spant de kroon; de hele sportwereld was dat jaar in de ban van de meedogenloze rivaliteit. Nadat Hinault in 1985 de tour had gewonnen, en LeMond tweede werd, wilde Hinault nog één keer meedoen, met maar één doel: zijn ploeggenoot LeMond aan de overwinning helpen. Maar was Hinault te vertrouwen? Tijdens de tocht door Frankrijk zette hij enkele malen de aanval in op LeMond. Hinault zei dat dit zogenaamde verraad bedoeld was om LeMond te harden. Maar LeMond geloofde hem niet en werd doodsbang en paranoïde. Waarom zat Hinault zijn ploegmaat zo in de weg? Zou LeMond bezwijken onder de druk? Iets sinisters stond te gebeuren, maar niemand, ook LeMond niet, wist wat het was. Dit boek geeft een kijkje achter de schermen van het grote sportevenement en stuwt de adrenaline door je aderen. Je voelt de spanning en de onderlinge camaraderie en je bent getuige van het verraad en de uitputting.
