Import - The Little Drummer Girl by Le Carre

A novel of chilling perception and prophetic insight, arousing controversy and confrontation on its first publication THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL also represents a dramatic departure by John le Carré from the world of Smiley #39;s People, and has been a record-breaking bestseller throughout the world. In this master storyteller #39;s most powerful, most heart-stopping novel yet, the scene is England, West Germany, Greece, Israel and the Palestinian camps. The hunter is the fiercely passionate Kurtz, an officer with Israeli intelligence. His quarry is a Palestinian, cunning, ruthless, stateless and nameless, whose primitive bombs have slaughtered Jews across Europe. Between the hunter and hunted the snare is laid. She is Charlie, a young English actress, perilously alone on a mission to the dark heart of international terrorism. #34;The Little Drummer Girl is not only a spy story; it #39;s a political novel and a love story too.. Le Carré utites this kind of thing better than anyone has ever done - intelligent and exciting... attentive to the credibility of character and informed with a moral vision. He is simply the world #39;s greatest fictional spymaster #39; NEWSWEEK With this novel, John le Carré has done for the Middle East conflict uhat Graham Greene at his best did for Vietnam, Africa and South America #39; DIE ZEIT #34;Terrifying and illuminating.. fiction on the grand scale! THE WASHINGTON POST