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Bonn: a small provincial town elevated by the Cold War to the artificial status of a capital city of British diplomats, their wives and aspiring German politicians. While the Foreign Office is locked in a last desperate battle to enter the Common Market, while the new Germany is being carried away on a rising tide of student-bourgeois nationalism, an aging Second Secretary vanishes from the British Embassy. Leo Harting: and he has taken with him, apparently official files which if disclosed could ruin Britain's chances at the negotiating table. Alan Turner, a tough investigator from London is sent to find him and pursue Harting's past: the institutions which employed or rejected him; the women and men who loved, trusted or despised him; and there's a refugee background to check out as well. It is vital that the Germans do not learn that Harting is missing nor that there's been a leak. With radical students and neo-Nazis rioting and critical negotiations under way in Brussels, the timing could not be worse and that's probably not an accident... -
On holiday in Mykenos is Charlie, a promiscuous, unsuccessful, left-wing actress, in search of commitment - but to what and to whom? Kurtz in an embattled Israeli immigrant and an officer of Israeli intelligence, whose job is to stop the bombing of Jews in Europe. Michel is the cover-name for the Palestinian boy who, with his brother, has come to Europe to make the world listen to his people's agony. Joseph is the name given by Charlie and her friends to the handsome, solitary bather lying on the beach at Mykenos, who seems to need nothing but his water bottle and little library of left-wing literature. And Helga is an educated middle class German girl who believes that only action can speak for ideas. If you enjoy Le Carrè's work: https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-the-russia-house-sean-connery-michelle-pfeiffer/
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George Smiley No. VIII. Nothing is as it was. Old enemies embrace. The dark staging grounds of the Cold War - whose shadows barely obscure the endless games of espionage - are flooded with light. The rules are rewritten, the stakes changed and the future unfathomable. Ned has worked for the British Intelligence all of his life - a loyal, shrewd officer of the Cold War. Now approaching the end of his career, he revisits his own past. He invites the reader on a tour of three decades in the Circus, burrowing deep in the world of spies from every corner of the globe.
