The Spy Who Came In From The Cold; Call For The Dead; A Murder Of Quality; The Looking-Glass War; A Small Town In Germany
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Few names in twentieth-century fiction carry the weight and moral authority of John le Carré, and this handsome omnibus — collecting five of his most celebrated novels complete and unabridged — is nothing less than a master class in the art of the spy thriller. From the bleak, existential despair of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, in which a burned-out British agent is sent on one last, soul-destroying mission behind the Iron Curtain, to the bureaucratic paranoia of The Looking-Glass War and the quiet menace of A Small Town in Germany, le Carré constructs a world where loyalty is a currency spent carelessly and idealism is the first casualty of statecraft. The collection also presents the genesis of his iconic creation, George Smiley, in the procedural brilliance of Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality. Le Carré's prose is distinguished by its restraint and psychological precision — he writes not of glamorous adventure, but of compromise, exhaustion, and the corrosive moral cost of operating in the shadows. These five novels, spanning the height of the Cold War, collectively argue that the greatest danger to Western values was never the enemy across the wall, but the willingness of institutions to sacrifice their own humanity in the name of victory. For any reader who has yet to encounter le Carré's bleak and utterly compelling vision, this omnibus is the definitive point of entry.
Author: John Le Carré
Format: Hardback
Genre: Cold war & espionage
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Few names in twentieth-century fiction carry the weight and moral authority of John le Carré, and this handsome omnibus — collecting five of his most celebrated novels complete and unabridged — is nothing less than a master class in the art of the spy thriller. From the bleak, existential despair of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, in which a burned-out British agent is sent on one last, soul-destroying mission behind the Iron Curtain, to the bureaucratic paranoia of The Looking-Glass War and the quiet menace of A Small Town in Germany, le Carré constructs a world where loyalty is a currency spent carelessly and idealism is the first casualty of statecraft. The collection also presents the genesis of his iconic creation, George Smiley, in the procedural brilliance of Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality. Le Carré's prose is distinguished by its restraint and psychological precision — he writes not of glamorous adventure, but of compromise, exhaustion, and the corrosive moral cost of operating in the shadows. These five novels, spanning the height of the Cold War, collectively argue that the greatest danger to Western values was never the enemy across the wall, but the willingness of institutions to sacrifice their own humanity in the name of victory. For any reader who has yet to encounter le Carré's bleak and utterly compelling vision, this omnibus is the definitive point of entry.