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A Small Town in Germany
- Author
- John le Carré
- Narrator
- Michael Jayston
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 30 January 2025
- Run Time
- 13 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As he gets closer to the truth of Harting's disappearance, he will discover that the face of Cold War Europe - and the attentions of the British Ministry itself - are far uglier that he could possibly have imagined.
Le Carré's searing Cold War novel creates a world where the lines between right and wrong, good and evil, are horribly blurred.
'Brilliant, unforgettable ... a masterpiece' New Statesman
'Exciting, compulsively readable and brilliantly plotted' The New York Times
© le Carré Productions 1968 (P)Penguin Audio 2024
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Details
- Author
- John le Carré
- Narrator
- Michael Jayston
- Duration
- 13 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 January 2025
- ISBN
- 9780241398326
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Espionage and spy thriller, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction: literary and general, Cold wars and proxy conflicts
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As he gets closer to the truth of Harting's disappearance, he will discover that the face of Cold War Europe - and the attentions of the British Ministry itself - are far uglier that he could possibly have imagined.Le Carré's searing Cold War novel creates a world where the lines between right and wrong, good and evil, are horribly blurred.'Brilliant, unforgettable ... a masterpiece' New Statesman'Exciting, compulsively readable and brilliantly plotted' The New York Times© le Carré Productions 1968 (P)Penguin Audio 2024
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