3.3
The Russia House
About the Author John le Carré lives in Cornwall, England. He is the author of The Tailor of Panama, which is also available on audio from Random House. Product Description We are in the third year of perestroika and glasnost. The place is Moscow. The man is Barley: a derelict English publisher with a passion of jazz and a penchant for booze, who visits the Moscow Book Fair.The woman is Katya: a beautiful Russian with a mission to mankind and access to some of the hottest defense intelligence to come out of the Soviet Union in years. Its source: a disillusioned and desperate Russian physicist who wants Barley to publish the secrets . . . but the British Secret Service and the CIA have other ideas.In the Russia House, the action moves from Moscow to a safehouse in London, to a CIA-owned island off the coast of Maine and back again to the Soviet Union. What unfolds between Barley and Katya is a spy story and a love story. This is John le Carré at his incomparable best.
Abridged Audio - Fiction/GeneralFictionFiction / General
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERRandom House Audio
LANGUAGEEN
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer",he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, due to his strong disapproval of Brexit, he took out Irish citizenship, which was possible due to his having an Irish grandparent. Le Carré's third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller, was adapted as an award-winning film, and remains one of his best-known works. This success allowed him to leave MI6 to become a full-time author.[4] His novels which have been adapted for film or television include The Looking Glass War (1965), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974, 2011), Smiley's People (1979), The Little Drummer Girl (1983), The Night Manager (1993), The Tailor of Panama (1996), The Constant Gardener (2001), A Most Wanted Man (2008) and Our Kind of Traitor (2010). Philip Roth said that A Perfect Spy (1986) was "the best English novel since the war".
3.3
The Russia House
About the Author John le Carré lives in Cornwall, England. He is the author of The Tailor of Panama, which is also available on audio from Random House. Product Description We are in the third year of perestroika and glasnost. The place is Moscow. The man is Barley: a derelict English publisher with a passion of jazz and a penchant for booze, who visits the Moscow Book Fair.The woman is Katya: a beautiful Russian with a mission to mankind and access to some of the hottest defense intelligence to come out of the Soviet Union in years. Its source: a disillusioned and desperate Russian physicist who wants Barley to publish the secrets . . . but the British Secret Service and the CIA have other ideas.In the Russia House, the action moves from Moscow to a safehouse in London, to a CIA-owned island off the coast of Maine and back again to the Soviet Union. What unfolds between Barley and Katya is a spy story and a love story. This is John le Carré at his incomparable best.
Abridged Audio - Fiction/GeneralFictionFiction / General
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERRandom House Audio
LANGUAGEEN
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer",he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, due to his strong disapproval of Brexit, he took out Irish citizenship, which was possible due to his having an Irish grandparent. Le Carré's third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller, was adapted as an award-winning film, and remains one of his best-known works. This success allowed him to leave MI6 to become a full-time author.[4] His novels which have been adapted for film or television include The Looking Glass War (1965), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974, 2011), Smiley's People (1979), The Little Drummer Girl (1983), The Night Manager (1993), The Tailor of Panama (1996), The Constant Gardener (2001), A Most Wanted Man (2008) and Our Kind of Traitor (2010). Philip Roth said that A Perfect Spy (1986) was "the best English novel since the war".
