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A novel of chilling perception and prophetic insight, arousing controversy and confrontation on its first publication,
THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL
also represents a dramatic departure by John le Carré from the world of Smiley's People, and has been a record-breaking bestseller throughout the world.
In this master storyteller's most powerful, most heart-stopping novel yet, the scene is England, West Germany, Greece, Israel and the Palestinian camps.
The hunter is the fiercely passionate Kurtz, an officer with Israeli intelligence. His quarry is a Palestinian, cunning, ruthless, stateless and nameless, whose primitive bombs have slaughtered Jews across Europe. Between the hunter and hunted the snare is laid. She is Charlie, a young English actress, perilously alone on a mission to the dark heart of international terrorism.
'The Little Drummer Girl is not only a spy story; it's a political novel and a love story too... Le Carré writes this kind of thing better than anyone has ever done - intelligent and exciting... attentive to the credibility of character and informed with a moral vision.
He is simply the world's greatest fictional spymaster' NEWSWEEK
ISBN:0330282565
