John le Carré

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater good.

Peter Guillam, trofast kollega av George Smiley i den britiske etterretningstjenesten, mottar et brev fra sin gamle arbeidsgiver. Årsak? Hans fortid i den kalde krigen har kommet tilbake for å hjemsøke ham. Etterretningsoperasjoner som en gang ga en smak av det hemmelige London, og involverte karakterer som Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley og Peter Guillam selv, skal granskes. Det er langt fra bare gode minner som vekkes til live.

"Recounted with the storytelling elan of a master raconteur -- by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carre, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now an Emmy-nominated television series starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire or the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth; visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide; celebrating New Year's Eve 1982 with Yasser Arafat and his high command; interviewing a German woman terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev; listening to the wisdoms of the great physicist, dissident, and Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov; meeting with two former heads of the KGB; watching Alec Guinness prepare for his role as George Smiley in the legendary BBC TV adaptations of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People; or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in The Constant Gardener, le Carre endows each happening with vividness and humor, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carre gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters. From the Hardcover edition.

Le Carrés berømte hovedperson George Smiley er blevet udmanøvreret af efterretningstjenesten, men man har hentet ham tilbage, fordi en underagent i Hong Kong ved et tilfælde løber ind i en fantastisk historie. Russerne har en mand, en muldvarp, placeret i selve hjertet af Cirkus, Secret Services højborg. Tomas Alfresson har i 2012 filmatiseret romanen - med Gary Oldman som Smiley og Colin Firth som Bill Haydon.

Spionromanens ubestridte mester vender tilbage med en ny koldkrigsroman - den første med George Smiley i mere end 25 år. John le Carré fletter fortid med nutid og spinder et plot lige så indviklet og fascinerende som i de to forløbere, Spionen, der kom ind for kulden og Dame konge es spion, som romanen trækker tråde tilbage til. I en historie, der er fuld af spænding, humor og moralsk ambivalens præsenterer le Carré læseren for en parade af uforglemmelige firgurer - gamle såvel som nye. Peter Guillam, George Smileys elev og loyale kollega fra Cirkus, den britiske efterretningstjenestes højborg, der nyder sit otium i Bretagne, har modtaget et brev fra 'Tjenesten', der kalder ham til London. Hvorfor? Fordi 'Tjenesten' er under anklage for urent trav, og der skal kastes lys over det, der skete dengang for halvtreds år siden. Efterretningsoperationen, der engang kastede glans over det hemmelige London og involverede personer som Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley og Peter Guillam selv, bliver nu under rystende kriterier gransket af en generation, der ikke kan huske den kolde krig. Pressen skriver: »Spioners arv er le Carré i sin reneste form. Lavmælt, sitrende og smerteligt … Det er flot leveret af en gammel gnavpot, der nok har mistet nogle illusioner undervejs, men aldrig har sluppet engagementet!« – Weekendavisen »Simpelthen John le Carré, når han er allerbedst, elegant, sinister, antydende og anende med sin egen sælsomme ambiguitet.« ***** – Politiken »[E]n ægte koldkrigsroman, som det kan være svært at slippe, før sidste side er læst. Og så har den det helt unikke le Carré-kendetegn, som gælder alle hans bøger: Den er velskrevet.« ***** – Kristeligt Dagblad »Denne roman … udmærker sig ved sit reflekterende gammelmandsfilosofiske aftryk af lige dele vrissenhed, overlevelseskamp og resignation.« ***** – Berlingske »John le Carré har skrevet sin coda til første del af forfatterskabet.« ****** – Jyllands-Posten

DON'T MISS THE PIGEON TUNNEL DOCUMENTARY--NOW PLAYING IN SELECT THEATERS AND STREAMING ON AppleTV+ The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carr , the legendary author of A Legacy of Spies. "Recounted with the storytelling lan of a master raconteur--by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesFrom his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carr has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carr is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire or the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth; visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide; celebrating New Year's Eve 1982 with Yasser Arafat and his high command; interviewing a German woman terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev; listening to the wisdoms of the great physicist, dissident, and Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov; meeting with two former heads of the KGB; watching Alec Guinness prepare for his role as George Smiley in the legendary BBC TV adaptations of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People; or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in The Constant Gardener, le Carr endows each happening with vividness and humor, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carr gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters.

Now an AMC miniseries - The acclaimed novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carr , the legendary author of sophisticated spy thrillers, is at the top of his game in this classic novel of a world in chaos. With the Cold War over, a new era of espionage has begun. In the power vacuum left by the Soviet Union, arms dealers and drug smugglers have risen to immense influence and wealth. The sinister master of them all is Richard Onslow Roper, the charming, ruthless Englishman whose operation seems untouchable. Slipping into this maze of peril is Jonathan Pine, a former British soldier who's currently the night manager of a posh hotel in Zurich. Having learned to hate and fear Roper more than any man on earth, Pine is willing to do whatever it takes to help the agents at Whitehall bring him down--and personal vengeance is only part of the reason why. Praise for The Night Manager "A splendidly exciting, finely told story . . . masterly in its conception."--The New York Times Book Review "Intrigue of the highest order."--Chicago Sun-Times "Richly detailed and rigorously researched . . . Le Carr 's gift for building tension through character has never been better realized."--People "Grimly fascinating, often nerve-wracking, and impossible to put down."--Boston Herald

'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.' From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire, or visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide, or celebrating New Year's Eve with Yasser Arafat, or interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev, or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in his The Constant Gardener, le Carre endows each happening with vividness and humour, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carre gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters. 'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times' Guardian. 'John le Carre is as recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Times.

Charmer, fabulist and tailor to Panama's rich and powerful, Harry Pendel loves to tell stories. But when the British spy Andrew Osnard - a man of large appetites, for women, information and above all money - walks into his shop, Harry's fantastical inventions take on a life of their own. Soon he finds himself out of his depth in an international game he can never hope to win. Le Carre's savage satire on the espionage trade is set in a corrupt universe without heroes or honour, where the innocent are collateral damage and treachery plays out as tragic farce. 'A tour de force in which almost every convention of the classic spy novel is violated' The New York Times Book Review

”Finns det verkligen något som ett rent minne? Jag tvivlar på det. Även när vi övertygar oss själva att vi är likgiltiga, och håller oss till fakta utan att smycka ut eller utelämna något i självförhärligande syfte, är det rena minnet lika svårfångat som en våt tvål. I alla fall ter det sig så för mig, efter ett liv där fantasi och erfarenheter blandats med varandra.” John le Carrés efterlängtade memoarer bjuder på unik inblick i de hemliga världar, privata och professionella, som gett näring till hans mäktiga författarskap. I svensk översättning av Klas Östergren.

From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. The Pigeon Tunnel gives us a glimpse of the writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life to his fictional characters.

"Nattjänst" är en svidande skarp och kusligt aktuell skildring av de krafter i vår samtid som i det fördolda styr människors liv - och är beredda att offra dem. Starkt tränger Carré igenom den tunna, kultiverade ytan i de penningstinna skurkarnas värld och blottlägger råheten, girigheten och ondskan. BBC:s miniserie ”The night manager” baserad på John le Carrés roman i 8 delar visas på C-more. I regi av Susanne Bier och med Olivia Colman, Tom Hiddleston och Hugh Laurie i huvudrollerna.

The classic Cold War thriller, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism. But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended, Leamas's mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have done. In le Carre's breakthrough work of 1963, the spy story is reborn as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining. 'Superbly constructed, with an atmosphere of chilly hell' J. B. Priestley 'The best spy story I have ever read' Graham Greene 'The master storyteller ...has lost none of his cunning' A. N. Wilson 'I have re-read The Spy Who Came In From The Cold over and over again since I first encountered it in my teens, just to remind myself how extraordinary a work of fiction can be' Malcolm Gladwell 'One of those very rare novels that changes the way you look at the world. Unflinching, highly sophisticated, superb' William Boyd

The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carre's bestselling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. With a star cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox, Ian MacDiarmid, Anna Chancellor, Hugh Bonneville and Lindsay Duncan, these enthralling dramatisations perfectly capture the atmosphere of le Carre's taut, thrilling spy novels. Call for the Dead is the first Smiley novel, which sees him looking into an apparent suicide only to uncover a murderous conspiracy;A Murder of Quality finds Smiley investigating a murder in a private school; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold introduces Alec Leamas, a British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters; The Looking Glass War features former spy Fred Leiser, lured back from retirement to investigate a claim that Soviet missiles are being installed close to the West German border; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the first book in the Karla trilogy, and sees Smiley searching for a mole who has infiltrated the Circus; The Honourable Schoolboy sees Smiley determined to destroy his nemesis, Karla, and his spy networks; Smiley's People finds George Smiley called out of retirement to exorcise some Cold War ghosts from his clandestine past; The Secret Pilgrim sees Smiley invited to dine with the eager new recruits at the Circus. He offers them his thoughts on espionage and, in doing so, prompts a former colleague to re-examine his own eventful secret life. 'A radio triumph... Simon Russell Beale's pitch-perfect master spy' - "Financial Times". Duration: 19 hours.

Ud over at være en "djævelsk spændende og durkdreven historie", som pressen skrev ved udgivelsen i 1993, er det Natportieren, som danske Susanne Bier i instruktørstolen - en BBC tv-serie med international release i 2016. Den tidligere britiske soldat,Jonathan Pine, arbejder som natportier på et luksushotel i Zürich. Han rekrutteres til at spille en nøglerolle i en undercover-operation for at afsløre en magtfuld og livsfarlig våbenhandler. En spionthriller om kærlighed, tab, hævn og organiseret kriminalitet på højeste plan. Romanen er en af John le Carrés mest elskede og kritikerroste bøger. Og nu altså filmatiseret som tv-serie af Susanne Bier og med Tom Hiddleton i hovedrollen.

Le Carré's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and dramaThe Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry ­- dreamer, dissolute, philanderer and disloyal friend - has vanished, along with Tim's mistress. As their trail takes him to the lawless wilds of Russia and the North Caucasus, he is forced to question everything he stood for. Set in a fragmented, uncertain post-Soviet world, le Carré's brutal story of falsehoods and betrayal shows men playing dangerous games beyond their control.