A Most Wanted Man

John Lecarre

• 01 juli 2014
• 9781476740140

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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. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa.

Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client&;s survival becomes more important to her than her own career&;or safety. 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. 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.