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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...
4) Our game
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Language
English
Description
A romantic triangle on a retired British intelligence officer, his girl and the spy who stole her. It is told against the backdrop of the rebellion in Chechnya and the international intrigues surrounding it. A tale of the moral wastes of post-Cold War Europe in both East and West. By the author of The Night Manager.
Author
Series
George Smiley novels volume 8
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In "Call for the Dead," Asked to interview Samuel Fennan of the Foreign Office after an anonymous letter accused Fennan of Communist Party membership, George Smiley cleared him of the allegations, so was stunned to learn Fennan had died the day after the interview, leaving a suicide note claiming his careet had been ruined. Investigating circumstances that make no sense to him, Smiley gradually uncovers a spy ring and in so doing is led into a lethal...
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