Description: OFFERING "ABSOLUTE FRIENDS" BY JOHN Le CARRE SEE VIEWS ABOVE "A ferocious new novel from the master: when a man's good heart is his worst enemy... By chance and not choice, Ted Mundy - eternal striver, failed writer, and expatriate son of a British Army officer - used to be a spy. But that was in the good old Cold War days, when a cinder-block wall divided Berlin and the enemy was easy to recognize. Today, Mundy is a down-at-the-heels 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 an old German student, friend, radical, and onetime fellow spy, the crippled Sasha, seeker after absolutes, dreamer, and chaos addict. After years of trawling the Middle East and Asia as in itinerant university lecturer, Sasha has yet again discovered the true, the only, answer to life -- this time in the form of amysterious 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 in inclined to think it could. In Absolute Friends , John Le Carre 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 1960's, to the grim looking-glass of Cold War Europe, to the present day of terrorism and new alliances. This is the novel Le Carre fans have been waiting for - - a brilliant, ferocious, heartbreaking work for the ages." STATED FIRST EDITION PUBLISHED 2003 by LITTLE, BROWN and COMPANY, BOSTON, NEW YORK, LONDON FULL NUMBER LINE SIZE about 9 1/2" 455 PAGES BLACK CLOTH BOARDS WITH 3/4 RED PAPER PASTE OVER LITTLE BROWN LOGO EMBOSSED ON COVER BOARD GILT TITLE ON SPINE FINE CONDITION BOOK IN A FINE DUSTJACKET NO WEAR WHATSOEVER ON THE BOOK OR JACKET THE NOT PRICE-CLIPPED JACKET ($26.95) IS NOW IN MYLAR CLEAN AND TIGHT THEY DON'T COME MUCH BETTER THAN THIS! BID NOW! BUYER PREPAYS PLUS SHIPPING AUCTIONS MUST BE PAID WITHIN 7 DAYS OF AUCTION END BY PAY PAL FOREIGN SHIPPING ARRANGED MASSACHUSETTS CUSTOMERS ADD 6.25% SALES TAX ALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED WITH NEXT DAY SHIPMENT WE'LL SHIP ANYWHERE AS LONG AS YOU PAY THE SHIPPING! Add a map to your own listings. FREE Trial!
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Binding: Hardcover w/Jacket
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Topic: Literature, Modern
Special Attributes: Full Number Line, 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Origin: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Year Printed: 2003
Original/Facsimile: Original
Place of Publication: United States
Language: English
Author: John LeCarre
Publisher: Little Brown
