First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.

New / New. Item #15573
ISBN: 0684859262

The high-stakes world of international finance turns deadly as a lawyer from a London banking house is murdered. '[This] is how le Carré very neatly gets around the whole problem of his banking thriller: he turns it into a spy thriller.'  [The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lewis]

Background Information:
Despite the French pen name, novelist John le Carre [David John Moore Cornwell] was about as British as the Union Jack. He was a former British intelligence officer who started writing spy fiction in the early sixties.

Due to his past as a foreign officer, le Carre was unable to publish books under his real name of David Cornwell. Unlike the James Bond series, le Carre’s protagonists are more ambiguous and his spy novels are more psychological than about physical action.

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