A PERFECT SPY - John le Carré
KORTE INHOUD
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The premier spy novelist of our time now gives us his largest and most engrossing work. It is a novel that plumbs the essential nature of espionage itself as it interweaves the story of a secret international manhunt with the unfolding of a secret life — the life of a man of spectacular gifts, nursed on deceit, schooled in betrayal, incapable of love: a perfect spy.
The man is Magnus Pym, a senior partner in "the Firm" of British intelligence; a man whose boundless charm, energy, and wit so dazzle that no two people have ever perceived him in the same way; a man unknown, really, and perhaps unknowable, even to those closest to him. Especially now.
For Magnus Pym has disappeared. His superiors, his colleagues, his friends are baffled. Even his wife (the perfect wife of a perfect spy) is shaken. And while we follow their frenzied attempts to discover Pym's whereabouts — a search that soon galvanizes the espionage communities of both East and West as it ...
The premier spy novelist of our time now gives us his largest and most engrossing work. It is a novel that plumbs the essential nature of espionage itself as it interweaves the story of a secret international manhunt with the unfolding of a secret life — the life of a man of spectacular gifts, nursed on deceit, schooled in betrayal, incapable of love: a perfect spy.
The man is Magnus Pym, a senior partner in "the Firm" of British intelligence; a man whose boundless charm, energy, and wit so dazzle that no two people have ever perceived him in the same way; a man unknown, really, and perhaps unknowable, even to those closest to him. Especially now.
For Magnus Pym has disappeared. His superiors, his colleagues, his friends are baffled. Even his wife (the perfect wife of a perfect spy) is shaken. And while we follow their frenzied attempts to discover Pym's whereabouts — a search that soon galvanizes the espionage communities of both East and West as it ...
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33, JOHN LE CARRE, PAPERBACK, CORONET, ISBN 0340393130, 1987, 607 PAGES. [Pagina's: 607] [Jaar: 1987] [Titel: A PERFECT SPY]
