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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Jonathan Pine is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with an English billionaire.
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John le Carré, 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...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Night Manager by John le Carré. As its name suggests, the novel follows the night manager at a luxury hotel named Jonathan Pine. When the billionaire arms dealer Richard Roper, described by a former mistress as the "worst man in the world", arrives at the hotel with his entourage, Pine is drawn into a world of brutality, shady dealings and corruption on an international scale. The danger he is facing...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"An archive of letters written by the late John le Carré, giving readers access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our time The never-before-seen correspondence of John le Carré, one of the most important novelists of our generation, are collected in this beautiful volume. During his lifetime, le Carré wrote numerous letters to writers, spies, politicians, artists, actors and public figures. This collection is a treasure...
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Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
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A romantic triangle on a retired British intelligence officer, his girl and the spy who stole her. It is told against the backdrop of the rebellion in Chechnya and the international intrigues surrounding it. A tale of the moral wastes of post-Cold War Europe in both East and West. By the author of The Night Manager.
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English
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"In this hard-rocking, spine-tingling supernatural thriller, the washed-up guitarist of a '90s heavy metal band embarks on an epic road-trip across America and deep into the web of a sinister conspiracy. Grady Hendrix, horror writer and author of Paperbacks from Hell and My Best Friend's Exorcism, is back with his most electrifying novel yet. In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success--but then lead singer Terry Hunt...
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston.
"I have visited bohemia and got away unscathed."
Aldo Cassidy is an entrepreneurial genius. At thirty-nine, he dominates the...
"I have visited bohemia and got away unscathed."
Aldo Cassidy is an entrepreneurial genius. At thirty-nine, he dominates the...
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English
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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 imbues...
13) Monster: a novel
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English
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Meet Monster. Meet Judy. Two humans who don't like each other much, but together must fight dragons, fire-breathing felines, trolls, Inuit walrus dogs, and a crazy cat lady - for the future of the universe.
Monster runs a pest control agency. He's overworked and has domestic troubles - like having the girlfriend from hell.
Judy works the night shift at the local Food Plus Mart. Not the most glamorous life, but Judy is happy. No one bothers her and...
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Our Kind of Traitor; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston.
Tell Max that it concerns the Sandman…
A very junior agent answers Vladimir’s call, but it could have been the Chief of the Circus himself. No one at the British Secret
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré, the fifth novel featuring the celebrated spymaster George Smiley. In this instalment, Smiley comes out of retirement at the behest of his former colleague Peter Guillam in order to track down a Soviet mole at the heart of the British Intelligence Service. Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a masterful exploration of the tensions...
16) The Constant Gardener by John le Carré (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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English
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Constant Gardener with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Constant Gardener by John le Carré, which follows a British diplomat in Kenya as he comes to terms with the shocking murder of his wife Tessa. Before her untimely death, Tessa was investigating the abuses of a large pharmaceutical company in the country, which was knowingly using African...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Tess Rosenbloom is used to living in the dark. She's a trauma survivor and chronic insomniac, the night manager of a chic Brooklyn hotel who spends her free time reading Blood Feud, a massively popular book series about two warring clans of vampires trapped on a mysterious Isle. Tess even dabbles in online conspiracies theorizing that the world of Blood Feud is real - it's fun to hunt for clues! But deep down, Tess doesn't believe vampires actually...
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English
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Palm Beach is known around the world as the most wealthy, glamorous, opulent, decadent, self-indulgent, sinful spot on earth. With their beautiful 3.75 square-island constantly in the media glare, Palm Beachers protect their impossibly rich society from outside scrutiny with vigilant police, ubiquitous personal security staffs, and screens of tall hedges encircling every mansion.
To this bizarre suspicious, exclusive world, New York Times bestselling...
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Our Kind of Traitor; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston.
The 50th-anniversary edition of the bestselling novel that launched John le Carré’s career worldwide
In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin Wall, Alec Leamas watches as his last agent is shot...
The 50th-anniversary edition of the bestselling novel that launched John le Carré’s career worldwide
In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin Wall, Alec Leamas watches as his last agent is shot...
20) After that night
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Will Trent series volume 11
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English
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"After that night every thing changed... Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who's been brutally attacked. But...
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