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English
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Issa, a half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and Tommy Brue, a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg form an unlikely alliance as the rival spies of Germany, England and America scent a sure kill in the "War on Terror," and converge upon the innocents.
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
Español
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"Bruno Salvador, Salvo para los amigos y enemigos, es el hijo de un misionero católico irlandés y de una congolesa. Educado en la escuela de la misión y más tarde en un santuario para niños, se ha convertido en un reconocido intérprete de lenguas africanas minoritarias. Reclutado por los servicios de inteligencia británicos, Salvo es enviado a una reunión secreta entre financieros occidentales y señores de la guerra congoleños en la que...
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George Smiley novels volume 8
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English
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The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did...
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[2006]
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English
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After being abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador's life is guided by a British Intelligence officer. He becomes an interpreter and stumbles upon a nasty plot and ends up courting danger from London to Congo to an island of Denmark.
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