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Agent Running in the Field de John Le Carré

Agent Running in the Field

Autor John Le Carré
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 aug 2020

Recomandăm acest roman cititorilor care caută realism psihologic în locul artificiilor de acțiune. Se adresează celor fascinați de mecanismele puterii și de dilemele etice ale spionajului modern. Timpul nu mai are răbdare. Nat, un veteran de 47 de ani, crede că s-a retras. Greșit. Londra îl cheamă înapoi. Primește „The Haven”. O subunitate prăfuită. O echipă de spioni marginalizați. Amenințarea vine de la Centrul Moscova. Tensiunea crește în afara biroului. Pe terenul de badminton. Ed, un tânăr plin de furie politică, devine piesa centrală a unui joc periculos. Imaginați-vă tensiunea din Accidental Agent de Alan Judd, mutată într-un decor de club sportiv londonez unde discuțiile despre Brexit și Trump ascund capcane mortale. Apreciem cum John Le Carré demontează mitul spionului invincibil. Spre deosebire de atmosfera de gheață din The Spy Who Came in from the Cold sau debutul cu George Smiley din Call for the Dead, aici miza este imediată, viscerală și extrem de actuală. Autorul nu mai privește spre trecut, ci analizează prezentul fragmentat. Remarcăm o structură narativă strânsă, unde fiecare dialog cântărește greu. Agent Running in the Field funcționează ca o oglindă deformată a politicii externe britanice. Este un portret despre loialitate și trădare într-o epocă în care inamicul nu mai poartă uniformă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241986547
ISBN-10: 0241986540
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 130 x 191 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Dacă vreți să înțelegeți cum arată spionajul în era Brexit, aceasta este cartea potrivită. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă lucidă asupra serviciilor secrete britanice, departe de clișeele de cinema. Este un roman despre oameni obosiți de sistem, dar prinși în mecanismele lui. Veți descoperi o poveste în care pasiunea pentru badminton devine la fel de periculoasă ca o misiune sub acoperire la Moscova.

Despre autor

John Le Carré (1931-2020) a fost autorul definitoriu al romanului de spionaj modern. Educat la Berna și Oxford, a predat la Eton și a lucrat pentru serviciile de informații britanice (MI5 și MI6) în timpul Războiului Rece. Această experiență directă a conferit operelor sale o autenticitate inegalabilă. De la debutul său în Call for the Dead și succesul mondial cu Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, autorul a explorat ambiguitatea morală a lumii subterane a spionajului, devenind un cronicar neobosit al tensiunilor geopolitice globale.

Notă biografică

John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020.

Recenzii

A fine piece of storytelling. It is a neat, compact, slow-burning tale with just the right amount of twisting and turning and misdirection. Divided loyalties, uncertain motives, Russian agents, bureaucratic infighting, jaded spies, tatty offices - all of the things you want and expect from a high-quality le Carré thriller are here
A very classy entertainment about political ideals and deception . . . laced with fury at the senseless vandalism of Brexit and of Trump. Le Carré is the master of the spy genre.
Le Carré delivers a tale for our times, replete with the classic seasoning of betrayal, secret state shenanigans and sad-eyed human frailty, all baked into an oven-hot contemporary thriller . . . Agent Running in the Field is right on the money, in psychology as much as politics, a demonstration of the British spy thriller at its unputdownable best
As ingeniously structured as any of le Carré's fiction, skilfully misdirecting the reader for much of the time
A masterpiece
Master of the game
Le Carré's troubled new protagonist is developed with the author's customary skill . . . an impeccable piece of writing
No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times
The master is back on form in this tale of Russian subterfuge and a middle-aged spy 's suspicious badminton partner
A rich, beautifully written book studded with surprises. Narrative is a black art, and Le Carré is its grandmaster
The master espionage novelist takes on Brexit and Trump in this tense and chilling portrait of today
Wonderful . . . sophisticated entertainment from an author who, at 88, remains sharper than most of us
John le Carré is as recognisable a writer as Dickens or Austen
A bang-up-to-date investigation of some of the big issues of our time
Le Carré demonstrates once again his sublime elegance as a writer, and his delicate touch when portraying human failings in the shadowy world of espionage . . . subtle, wry and seamless, it's an utter joy, from first page to last
A literary master for a generation
Blisteringly contemporary . . . Each new book from le Carré is refreshingly different and uniquely compelling
One of those writers who will be read a century from now
Astute state-of-the-nation commentary
Classic, unmistakeable le Carré . . . it has the added bonus of some wonderfully vitriolic rants
The master of the espionage novel returns with a perfectly nuanced story of a spy on the scrapheap at the age of 47 and uncertain who to trust in the world of Brexit and divided loyalties

Descriere scurtă

'The British spy thriller at its unputdownable best' Observer

SELECTED FOR BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS
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Nat, a veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, thinks his years as an agent runner are over. But MI6 have other plans. To tackle the growing threat from Moscow Centre, Nat is put in charge of The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. His weekly badminton session with the young, introspective, Brexit-hating Ed, offers respite from the new job. But it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Nat down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all.
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'A rich, beautifully written book studded with surprises. Narrative is a black art, and Le Carré is its grandmaster' Spectator

'Blisteringly contemporary' Economist

'Subtle, wry and seamless, it's an utter joy, from first page to last' Daily Mail

'A very classy entertainment about political ideals and deception . . . laced with fury at the senseless vandalism of Brexit and of Trump' Guardian

'A fine piece of storytelling' Times