John le Carré (44 kníh)
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John le Carré Noční recepční CZBývalý příslušník britské armády Jonathan Pine – nyní noční recepční v luxusním curyšském hotelu – se opět ocitá tváří v tvář Richardu Onslowu Roperovi, miliardáři a navenek velkému filantropovi, který však ve skutečnosti řídí špinavý obchod se zbraněmi. Na jeho praktiky narazil už před lety v Káhiře – a poté spojil síly s britskou rozvědkou, jež se už léta marně snaží Ropera dostat. Pine souhlasí, že se nechá…
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John le Carré Noční recepčníBývalý příslušník britské armády Jonathan Pine – nyní noční recepční v luxusním curyšském hotelu – se opět ocitá tváří v tvář Richardu Onslowu Roperovi, miliardáři a navenek velkému filantropovi, který však ve skutečnosti řídí špinavý obchod se zbraněmi. Na jeho praktiky narazil už před lety v Káhiře – a poté spojil síly s britskou rozvědkou, jež se už léta marně snaží Ropera dostat. Pine souhlasí, že se nechá…
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John le Carré Our Game ENLe Carré's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama. The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry - dreamer, dissolute, philanderer and disloyal friend - has vanished, along with Tim's mistress. As their trail takes him to the…
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John le Carré Our Kind of Traitor ENAn English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the…
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John le Carré Our Kind of Traitor ENAn English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the…
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John le Carré Panamský krejčí CZKlasický špionážní román Panamský krejčí autora Johna le Carré. Děj románu je zasazen do současné Panamy. Harry Pendel je majitelem krejčovské firmy, jejímiž dveřmi procházejí všichni, kteří ve Střední Americe něco znamenají. Záhadný a požitkářský Andrew Osnard je špion pocházející z Etonu. Jeho tajná mise má dva hlavní cíle – pozorně sledovat politická jednání ohledně převzetí panamského kanálu Američany a zároveň…
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John le Carré Špion, který přišel z chladuRomán, který autora proslavil coby revolucionáře špionážního žánru. Není tu nezničitelný James Bond ani megalomanský padouch jako jeho protivníci, ale je tu jedna bezpečnostní služba stojící proti druhé a někdy i proti třetí. Takhle to ve světě...
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John le Carré Špion, který se přišel ohřát CZAlec Leamas je vysloužilý britský špion, který se vrátil z chladu východoněmecké totality. Narazil tam na protivníka silnějšího, než je on sám. Nelítostného, chytrého, vražedného. Je ochoten se vrátit a obětovat vše, včetně vlastního života, aby protivníka zničil. Vše… s jedinou výjimkou. A právě kolem této „výjimky“ se odvíjí ďábelská zápletka špionážní hry tahů a protitahů, hry, ve které ani život, ani lidské…
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John le Carré Spy Who Came in from the Cold ENAlec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism. But when George…
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John le Carré The Constant Gardener ENThe young and beautiful Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana. Her putative African lover has disappeared, and her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive.
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John le Carré The Little Drummer GirlA special edition of John le Carre's thrilling novel of espionage and betrayal in the Middle East, to tie in with the new BBC series starring Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Shannon and Florence Pugh...
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John le Carré The Night Manager ENAt the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine. In a chilling tale of corrupt…
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John le Carré The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life ENThe Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carré's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret sharers' - the men and women, who inspired some of his most enthralling novels - and a testament to the author's extraordinary engagement with the last half-century. The reader is swept along not just by the chilling winds of the Cold War or by the author's frightening journeys into…
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John le Carré The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life ENFrom 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, John le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same…
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John le Carré The Russia House ENBarley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt…
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John le Carré The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ENAlex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism. But when George…
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John le Carré The Spy Who Came in from the ColdAlec Leamas, a tired, worn out British spymaster, has retired. His boss, however, believes he has one last job in him and sends him to East Germany to spread false information about a powerful East German intelligence officer. Can Agent Leamas end his...
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John le Carré The Tailor of Panama ENCharmer, fabulist and tailor to Panama's rich and powerful, Henry Pendel loves to tell stories. But when the British spy Andrew Osnard - a man of large appetites, for women, information and above all money - walks into his shop, Henry's fantastical inventions take on a life of their own. Soon he finds himself out of his depth in an international game he can never hope to win. Le Carré's savage satire on the…
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John le Carré Zrádce mezi námi CZBritánie zabředla do hospodářské krize. Mladý oxfordský akademik s levicovými sklony a jeho přítelkyně advokátka odlétají mimo sezónu na dovolenou na karibský ostrov Antigua. Tam zdánlivou náhodou potkávají ruského milionáře Dimu, jenž vlastní poloostrov a zlaté hodinky posázené diamanty. Rovněž má na pravém palci tetování a touží si zahrát tenis. Kvůli jeho dalšímu přání absolvují mladí milenci složitou cestu přes…
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