A Most Wanted Man (English Edition)

John le Carre

Scribner

2008

353 páginas

11h 46m

ISBN-13: 9781439123218

Português Brasileiro

Now a major film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, and Robin Wrightthe acclaimed bestselling novel about spies in The War on Terror. A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her clients survival becomes more important to her than her own careeror safety. In pursuit of Issas mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Frères, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. Annabel, Issa, and Brue form an unlikely allianceand a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, sensing a sure kill in the War on Terror, the rival spies of Germany, England, and America converge upon the innocents. Thrilling, compassionate, with characters youll never forget, A Most Wanted Man is a work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times.