The pigeon tunnel stories from my life

Le Carré, John, 1931-2020.

Large Print 2016

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 Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbue...

Item Details & Discovery

Explore Topics & Themes:

Le Carré, John, 1931-2020

Novelists, English 20th century Biography

More in this Genre:

Autobiographies Large print books

Part of a Series:

Thorndike Press large print basic series Thorndike Press® large print basic

View technical details & catalog information

ISBN:

9781432840037
9781410493262
1432840037
1410493261

Edition:

Large print edition

Description:

517 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
large print

Notes:

Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary

Contents:

Don't be beastly to your Secret Service
Dr Globke's laws
Official visit
Fingers on the trigger
To whomsoever it may concern
Wheels of British justice
Ivan Serov's defection
A legacy
The innocence of Murat Kurnaz
Going out into the field
Bumping into Jerry Westerby
Lonely in Vientiane
Theatre of the Real: Dances with Arafat
Theatre of the Real: The Villa Brigitte
Theatre of the Real: A question of guilt
Theatre of the Real: Terms of endearment
The Soviet knight is dying inside his armour
The Wild East: Moscow 1993
Blood and treasure
The biggest bears in the garden
Among the Ingush
Joseph Brodsky's prize
The wrong horse's mouth
His brother's keeper
Quel Panama!
Under deep cover
Hunting for warlords
Richard Burton needs me
Alec Guinness
Lost masterpieces
Bernard Pivot's necktie
Lunching with prisoners
Son of the author's father
To Reggie with thanks
The most wanted man
Stephen Spender's credit card
Advice to an aspiring novelist
The last official secret

LCCN:

2016032676

Control Number:

1688658

View in Classic Catalog