John le Carré: Absolute Friends (UK 2020) From the Publisher: The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties and again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage. When they meet once more, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies, they become involved in clandestine activities - with lethal results. Absolute Friends is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our time John le Carré: Absolute Friends. Penguin Classics, ISBN: 9780241337240 (October, 2020), 464 p., £14.99.
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John le Carré: Absolute Friends (UK 2018) From the Publisher: Set in a world of lies and shifting allegiances, Absolute Friends is a savage fable of our times. John le Carré: Absolute Friends. Penguin Modern Classics, ISBN: 9780241321935 (September, 2018), 432 p., £8.99.
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John le Carré: Absolute Friends (USA 2015) From the Publisher: John le Carré: Absolute Friends. Back Bay Books, ISBN: 9780316353588 (November, 2015), 464 p., $9.99.
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John le Carré: Absolute Friends (UK 2006) From the Publisher: The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies. Deriving its scale from A PERFECT SPY and its passion from THE CONSTANT GARDENER, le Carré's new novel presents us with magical writing, characters to delight, and a spellbinding story that enchants even as it challenges. John le Carré: Absolute Friends. Sceptre, ISBN: 9780340923696 (September, 2006), 448 p., £7.99.
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John le Carré: Absolute Friends (USA 2005) From the Publisher: John le Carré: Absolute Friends. Little, Brown & Co., ISBN: 9780316058773 (August, 2005), 466 p., $7.99.
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John le Carré: Absolute Friends (USA 2004) From the Publisher: John le Carré: Absolute Friends. Back Bay Books, ISBN: 9780316159395 (November, 2004), 456 p., $13.95.
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John le Carré: Absolute Friends (UK 2004) From the Publisher: The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies. Deriving its scale from A PERFECT SPY and its passion from THE CONSTANT GARDENER, Le Carré's new novel presents us with magical writing, characters to delight, and a spellbinding story that enchants even as it challenges. John le Carré: Absolute Friends. Coronet, ISBN: 9780851441931 (September, 2004), 383 p., £6.99.
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John le Carré: Absolute Friends (UK 2004) From the Publisher: The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies. Deriving its scale from A PERFECT SPY and its passion from THE CONSTANT GARDENER, Le Carré's new novel presents us with magical writing, characters to delight, and a spellbinding story that enchants even as it challenges. John le Carré: Absolute Friends. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9780340832875 (January, 2004), 383 p., £18.99.
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John le Carré: Absolute Friends (USA 2003) From the Publisher: Today, Mundy is a down-at-heel tour guide in southern Germany, dodging creditors, supporting a new family, and keeping an eye out for trouble while in spare moments vigorously questioning the actions of the country he once bravely served. And trouble finds him, as it has before, in the shape of his old German student friend, radical, and one-time fellow spy, the crippled Sasha, seeker after absolutes, dreamer, and chaos addict. After years of trawling the Middle East and Asia as an itinerant university lecturer, Sasha has yet again discovered the true, the only answer to life-this time in the form of a mysterious billionaire philanthropist named Dimitri. Thanks to Dimitri, both Mundy and Sasha will find a path out of poverty, and with it their chance to change a world that both believe is going to the devil. Or will they? Who is Dimitri? Why does Dimitri's gold pour in from mysterious Middle Eastern bank accounts? And why does his apparently noble venture reek less of starry idealism than of treachery and fear? Some gifts are too expensive to accept. Could this be one of them? With a cooler head than Sasha's, Mundy is inclined to think it could. In Absolute Friends, John le Carré delivers the masterpiece he has been building to since the fall of communism: an epic tale of loyalty and betrayal that spans the lives of two friends from the riot-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold War Europe to the present day of terrorism and new alliances. This is the novel le Carré fans have been waiting for, a brilliant, ferocious, heartbreaking work for the ages. John le Carré: Absolute Friends. Little, Brown & Co., ISBN: 9780316000642 (December, 2003), 455 p., $26.95.
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