The Russia House

Présentation de l'éditeur It is the third summer of perestroika. Barley Blair, London publisher, receives a smuggled document from Moscow. It contains technical information of overwhelming importance. But is it genuine? Is the author genuine? A plant? A madman? Blair, jazz-loving, drink-marinated, dishevelled, is hardly to the taste of the spymasters, yet he has to be used - sent to the Soviet Union to make contact. Katya, the Moscow intermediary, is beautiful, thoughtful, equally sceptical of all state ideology. Together, as the safe clichés of hostility disintegrate, they may represent the future - an idea that is anathema to the entrenched espionage professionals on both sides. THE RUSSIA HOUSE: a spy story, a love story, and a fable for our time. Revue de presse Praise for The Constant Gardener ( :) The master storyteller...has lost none of his cunning ( A. N. Wilson, Daily Mail) The book breathes life, anger and excitement ( Nigel Williams, Observer) A cracking thriller ( Economist) Nobody writing today manipulates suspense better. Nobody constructs a more tantalisingly complex plot . . . essential reading ( Chris Woodhead, Sunday Telegraph) Biographie de l'auteur John le Carré was born in 1931. He attended the universities of Bern and Oxford and later taught at Eton. He spent five years in the British Foreign Service.