Le Carré, John 1931-

The spy who came in from the cold by John Le Carré ( Book )
263 editions published between 1961 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 6,774 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A veteran spy wants to "come in from the cold" to retirement. He undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends defection and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent

Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy by John Le Carré ( Book )
145 editions published between 1974 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 6,080 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
George Smiley is assigned to uncover the identitiy of the double agent operating in the highest levels of British Intelligence

The Russia house by John Le Carré ( Book )
103 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 5,041 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
At a small British trade fair in Moscow, a message of global importance is made up of three very fragile human links: a Soviet physicist (code name Bluebird) burdened with a secret knowledge; a beautiful young Russian woman to whom the papers are entrusted; and Barley Blair, a bewildered English publisher pressed into service by British Intelligence to ferret out the source of the document. A magnificent story of love, betrayal, and courage. The Russia house catches history in the act.--Back cover

A perfect spy by John Le Carré ( Book )
106 editions published between 1986 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,963 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When British intelligence agent Magnus Pym disappears, two desperate searches are initiated--the hunt of agents, East and West, for the missing spy and Pym's own quest to uncover the mysteries of his own past

The constant gardener : a novel by John Le Carré ( Book )
107 editions published between 2000 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 4,806 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carre's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. A master chronicler of the deceptions and betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, le Carre portrays, in The Constant Gardener, the dark side of unbridled capitalism. His eighteenth novel is also the profoundly moving story of a man whom tragedy elevates. Justin Quayle, amateur gardener and ineffectual bureaucrat, seemingly oblivious to his wife's cause, discovers his own resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love. The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time

The little drummer girl by John Le Carré ( Book )
103 editions published between 1900 and 2014 in English and held by 4,779 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Charlie, a young English actress, meets a man on a Greek beach who draws her into a world of espionage and terror in the Middle East

Absolute friends by John Le Carré ( Book )
67 editions published between 2001 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,778 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Follows friends and fellow ex-spies, Ted Mundy and Sasha, as they attempt to change their lives and the world in which they live, covering their new escapades in Germany and the ones from their past

Smiley's people by John Le Carré ( Book )
126 editions published between 1979 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,692 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In London at dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people -- "the no-men of no-man's land"--Into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland as he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla

Our kind of traitor by John Le Carré ( Book )
55 editions published between 2010 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,469 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer. Dima wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead them on a precarious journey through Paris to a safe house in Switzerland, helpless pawns in a game of nations that reveals the unholy alliances between the Russian mafia, the City of London, the government and the competing factions of the British Secret Service"--Cover, p. 2

Single & single : a novel by John Le Carré ( Book )
152 editions published between 1998 and 2013 in 15 languages and held by 4,446 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A crooked father and an honest son are the protagonists of this novel on money laundering. The father is Tiger Single, owner of a British investment house, laundering money for criminals. His dream is to see his son follow in his footsteps, but the son is honest and will not have anything to do with him--until the father's life is threatened