HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
2. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
3. A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre (Scribner)
4. The Pirate King (Forgotten Realms: Transitions, Book 2) by R.A. Salvatore, (Wizards Of The Coast)
5. Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers) by John Sandford (Putnam Adult)
Tag Archive > John le Carré
Publishers Weekly Best-Sellers - October 18 2008
Guardian UK Hardcover Best-Sellers - October 10 2008
1 (New) Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell
2 (2) A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre
3 (New) Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
4 (1) Doors Open by Ian Rankin
5 (3) Bones of the Hills by Colin Iggulden
6 (4) Firefight by Chris Ryan
7 (5) The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery) by P.D. James
8 (6) Silks by Dick [...]
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre - Review
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 [...]
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 Carre - Interview
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre
British writer John Le Carre tackles thorny issues of immigration, terrorism and “extraordinary rendition” in his new novel “A Most Wanted Man,” which he hinted may be his last.
The 76-year-old author of bestselling Cold War espionage thrillers like “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” and “Tinker, [...]
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 [...]
