The Little Drummer Girl
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: Book club
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A masterwork of Cold War espionage fiction, The Little Drummer Girl chronicles the dangerous recruitment of Charlie, a young British actress with radical sympathies, into a complex Israeli intelligence operation targeting a Palestinian terrorist network. John le Carré constructs a morally intricate thriller in which the line between performance and reality dissolves, as Charlie is trained to play the role of a terrorist's lover in an elaborate theatre of the real designed to lure a bomb-maker out of hiding. The novel presents the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with rare, unflinching balance, refusing to reduce either side to simple villainy, and it is this moral ambiguity that gives the narrative its lasting, unsettling power. Written with le Carré's signature blend of psychological depth and procedural precision, the story moves from Europe to the Middle East with a taut, cinematic urgency that keeps the reader perpetually off-balance. Published in 1983, it stands as one of the author's most ambitious and emotionally charged works, a profound meditation on identity, loyalty, and the human cost of political violence.
Author: John Le Carré
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Book Club Associates, London
Genre: Cold war & espionage
Edition: Book club
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A masterwork of Cold War espionage fiction, The Little Drummer Girl chronicles the dangerous recruitment of Charlie, a young British actress with radical sympathies, into a complex Israeli intelligence operation targeting a Palestinian terrorist network. John le Carré constructs a morally intricate thriller in which the line between performance and reality dissolves, as Charlie is trained to play the role of a terrorist's lover in an elaborate theatre of the real designed to lure a bomb-maker out of hiding. The novel presents the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with rare, unflinching balance, refusing to reduce either side to simple villainy, and it is this moral ambiguity that gives the narrative its lasting, unsettling power. Written with le Carré's signature blend of psychological depth and procedural precision, the story moves from Europe to the Middle East with a taut, cinematic urgency that keeps the reader perpetually off-balance. Published in 1983, it stands as one of the author's most ambitious and emotionally charged works, a profound meditation on identity, loyalty, and the human cost of political violence.