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Exciting, compulsively readable and brilliantly plotted (The New York Times )
Brilliant, unforgettable ... a masterpiece (New Statesman )
Brilliant, unforgettable ... a masterpiece (New Statesman )
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West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them, facing riots, Nazi secrets and the delicate machinations of an unstable Europe in the throes of the Cold War.
As Turner gets closer to the truth of Harting's disappearance, he will discover that the face of International relations - and the attentions of the British Ministry itself - is uglier that he could possibly have imagined.
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People often divide Le Carre's books into his Cold War classics (Tinker Tailor, Smiley's People) and his more recent, dominated by romantic causes and characters (Mission Song, Absolute Friends). This, one of his first, has elements of both. The 'Small Town' is Bonn, then capital of Western Germany, and the plot centres on the hunt for missing documents in the British Embassy amidst a political crisis. Le Carre's ability to evoke a sense of time, place and character is extraordinary, and the plot is beautifully fashioned, with twists and turns driven by people and history. The Cold War is more setting than subject (don't expect a Karla like baddie), but the sense of how on the verge of crisis now stable western Europe felt in the 60s adds tension other thriller writers would die (or kill) for. Whichever style of Le Carre you prefer, going back to this will show its roots, while highlighting the style that makes Le Carre such a stand out as a thriller writer.
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