A Most Wanted Man
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (829 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001FA0H3E |
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| Number of Pages | : | 377 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. Now a major film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, and Robin Wright—the 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. 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 you’ll never forget, A Most Wanted Man is a work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times.. In pursuit of Issa’s 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 alliance—and a triangle of impossible loves is born. He is a devout Muslim. Soon her client’s survival becomes more important to her than her own career—or safety. Or is he? He says his name is Issa.Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation
"Typical LeCarre" according to Road Warrior Listener. Tough story to listen to. With the hardcopy, you can go back a few pages to pick up one of his many character threads that you may have dropped.An interesting story but not up to his usual mind bending suspense and matter of fact endings. Cold war spies and spying are lot more interesting. But if you are into tweaking the Muslim world, you will like this.. Really? This is all you've got? Amazon Customer Post-9/11 hysteria and the sudden realization that the western intelligence services were caught napping seems like such an excellent backdrop for a Le Carre novel. Shadowy private banking, Muslim figures that might be terror financiers, it sounds good, right? Too bad this thing is off the rails from the start - nary a nuanced, sympathetic, or remotely complex character to be found. The plot, revolving around a simple banking transaction, moves glacially, as the naive do-good lawyer and the cynical burnt-out banker are persuaded by various intelligence service h. "Carre's latest on Islamic Terrorists and spies." according to Burt Shachter. Illuminates the mindset of Islamic terrorists and theCIA types who pursue them. Book holds reader,s attention though convoluted at times. Not always easy to follow. Burt Shachter
From Publishers Weekly When boxer Melik Oktay and his mother, both Turkish Muslims living in Hamburg, take in a street person calling himself Issa at the start of this morally complex thriller from le Carré (The Mission Song), they set off a chain of events implicating intelligence agencies from three countries. Issa, who claims to be a Muslim medical student, is, in fact, a wanted terrorist and the son of Grigori Karpov, a Red Army colonel whose considerable assets are concealed in a mysterious portfolio at a Hamburg bank. Tommy Brue, a stereotypical flawed everyman caught up in the machinations of spies and counterspies, enters the plot when Issa's attorney seeks to claim these assets. All rights reserved. The book works best in its depiction of the rivalries besetting even post-9/11 intelligence agencies that should be allies, but none of the characters is as memorable as George Smiley or Magnus Pym. Still, even a lesser le