Call for the Dead

John le Carré

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Publisher:: Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 11/2011
Binding:: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9780141198286
Item number:: 1560316
Volume:: 149 Pages
Copyright-Jahr:: 2011
Weight:: 125 g
Format:: 196 x 128 mm
Thickness:: 17 mm
Release date:: 3.11.2011
Series:: Ein George-Smiley-Roman , Penguin Modern Classics
Note: Caution: Product is not in German language

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Short description

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation.

Blurb

John le Carr / b>was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.

Biography

John le Carré, geboren 1931 in Poole, Dorset, studierte in Bern und Oxford Germanistik, bevor er in diplomatischen Diensten u. a. in Bonn und Hamburg tätig war. Er lebt mit seiner Frau in Cornwall und London. 2011 wurde John le Carré mit der "Goethe-Medaille" für sein "eindrucksvolles humanistisches Plädoyer" in seinem Lebenswerk ausgezeichnet.