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HTML:??[Le Carré??s] novels are so brilliant because they??re emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they??re novels.? ??New York Times Book Review A thrilling tale for our times from the undisputed master of the spy genre Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain??s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie. Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greate… (más)
Un hombre decente es una emociona semblanza de nuestro tiempo, a veces desgarradora, a veces irónica, narrada con tensión incesante por el mayor cronista de nuestro tiempo. Gira en torno al odio al Brexit y a Trump ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
To Jane
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Our meeting was not contrived.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
“It is my considered opinion that for Britain and Europe, and for liberal democracy across the entire world as a whole, Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Britain’s consequent unqualified dependence on the United States in an era when the US is heading straight down the road to institutional racism and neo-fascism, is an unmitigated clusterfuck bar none.”
"A minority Tory cabinet of tenth-raters. A pig-ignorant foreign secretary who I’m supposed to be serving. Labour no better. The sheer bloody lunacy of Brexit."
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I had wanted to tell him I was a decent man, but it was too late.
Fictio
Myster
Suspens
Thrille
HTML:??[Le Carré??s] novels are so brilliant because they??re emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they??re novels.? ??New York Times Book Review A thrilling tale for our times from the undisputed master of the spy genre Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain??s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie. Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greate
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