A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre
To gauge how deeply much of the rest of the world abhors America’s current notion of justice, read John le Carré’s new novel about the war on terror. Even though American spies occupy little real estate in A Most Wanted Man, they bind its loose ends in a [...]
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A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre - Review
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre - Review
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre
A young Muslim asylum seeker called Issa arrives in Hamburg, injured and starving. Around his neck is the key to a deposit box stuffed with the fruits of his KGB father’s crooked deals with a private British bank. The banker Bruce and the mysterious Issa form a trinity [...]
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré - Review
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
A Most Wanted Man picks up the al-Qaeda theme but roots it in one of le Carré’s old stamping grounds - Hamburg, where he served as a political consul in his Foreign Office days.
It’s strange that Hamburg - one of the richest cities in Europe, with one of [...]
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