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- A George Smiley Novel
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Good book. Get the Michael Jayston version instead
- By David Schafer on 07-28-16
By: John le Carré
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The Little Drummer Girl
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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On holiday in Mykonos, Charlie wants only sunny days and a brief escape from England's bourgeois dreariness. Then a handsome stranger lures the aspiring actress away from her pals - but his intentions are far from romantic. Joseph is an Israeli intelligence officer, and Charlie has been wooed to flush out the leader of a Palestinian terrorist group responsible for a string of deadly bombings. Still uncertain of her own allegiances, she debuts in the role of a lifetime as a double agent in the "theatre of the real".
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Terror is Theatre: Le Carré Awakens Anger & Love
- By Darwin8u on 07-24-12
By: John le Carré
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A Small Town in Germany
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling author of A Legacy of Spies. "Haven't you realized that only appearances matter"? The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty's financially troubled government is seeking admission to Europe's Common Market just as anti-British factions are rising to power in Germany. Rioters are demanding reunification, and the last thing the Crown can afford is a scandal. Then Leo Harting - an embassy nobody - goes missing with a case full of confidential files.
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Recollects the Tension, Jingoism and Polarization
- By Scott Hammond on 06-09-15
By: John le Carré
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The Constant Gardener
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
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Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive.
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Greatest love story of the last fifty years
- By Darwin8u on 06-30-13
By: John le Carré
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Call for the Dead
- George Smiley, Book 1
- By: John Le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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After an unremarkable interview, Circus agent George Smiley determines the subject of a standard security check—a civil servant in the Foreign Office named Samuel Fennan—poses no threat, nor presents any reason for suspicion of espionage. Hours later, Samuel Fennan is found dead by suicide. Suddenly finding himself under intense scrutiny, Smiley realizes the Circus intends to blame him for Fennan's death. Rather than remain idle, Smiley begins his own investigation into the nature of the man's demise.
By: John Le Carré
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Our Kind of Traitor
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world’s number one money launderer and who wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an interrogation by the British Secret Service, who also need their help. Their acquiescence will lead them on a precarious journey through Paris to a safe house in Switzerland, helpless pawns in a game of nations.
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Be Prepared - Read at your own risk
- By Tim on 10-20-10
By: John le Carré
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Silverview
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Toby Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.
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Le Carré's SILVERVIEW brings him and us back home
- By Close Listener on 10-14-21
By: John le Carré
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The Russia House
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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"Glasnost" is on everyone's lips, but the rules of the game haven’t changed for either side. When a beautiful Russian woman foists off a manuscript on an unwitting bystander at the Moscow Book Fair, it's a miracle that she flies under the Soviets' radar. Or does she? The woman's source (codename: Bluebird) will trust only Barley Blair, a whiskey-soaked gentleman publisher with a poet's heart.
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Spying is Waiting.
- By Darwin8u on 03-17-13
By: John le Carré
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The Pigeon Tunnel
- Stories from My Life
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels.
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A Global Literary Treasure
- By Darwin8u on 09-16-16
By: John le Carré
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A Delicate Truth
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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A counter-terrorist operation, code-named Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: To capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: An ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister’s personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Three years later, a disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead.
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I haven't enjoyed a tale this much in many listens
- By connie on 05-10-13
By: John le Carré
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Agent Running in the Field
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.
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Who writes “unlistenable etc. “
- By Thomas on 11-02-19
By: John le Carré
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The Day of the Jackal
- By: Frederick Forsyth
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, operations chief of the O.A.S., to assassinate General de Gaulle.
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Tour de montagnes russes (roller coaster ride)!!!!
- By X on 03-26-11
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Red Sparrow
- A Novel
- By: Jason Matthews
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
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Drafted against her will to become a "Sparrow" - a trained seductress in the service, Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a first-tour CIA officer who handles the CIA's most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers, trained in their respective spy schools, collide in a charged atmosphere of tradecraft, deception, and inevitably, a forbidden spiral of carnal attraction that threatens their careers and the security of America's valuable mole in Moscow.
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Sexy Saucy Spies
- By Mel on 06-13-13
By: Jason Matthews
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- Bookoholics Anon
- 04-07-12
the best
Can't get enough of this author. My favorite of the Smiley trilogy. Very good narration.
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- Suzanne
- 03-27-12
What a Ride!
If you could sum up Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in three words, what would they be?
Intriguing, suspenseful, satisfying
What was one of the most memorable moments of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?
Jim Predeaux's recounting of his experience in Czechoslovakia to Smiley.
Have you listened to any of Michael Jayston’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Haven't listened to any before
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, not until near the end.
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- Anna
- 03-22-15
One of the best audiobooks of all time
What can I say about John le Carré that hasn't already been said? He is infinitely subtle, elegant in his prose and his characterization, his older work is rarely dated and he remains sharp and perceptive to this day. What makes this version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy so superlative is the narration by Michael Jayston. Jayston was in the 1970s TV miniseries – he played Peter Guillam – and in my opinion you can hear it wonderfully, especially in his Smiley. This is one audiobook that I listen to over and over again, and I cannot recommend it strongly enough.
(P.S. Did you find the movie confusing? That's okay, it was! Listen to this instead!)
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- Szu-Wei
- 01-31-18
Absolutely love the book and the narrator!
I have seen the movie and felt ambivalent about the story. However when my daughter insisted on getting this audio book, I relented. I was hooked after 10 minutes!
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- gboy
- 12-12-17
The best.
Best of the George Smiley stories. Anytime I hear the narrator portraying George Smiley, I see Sir Alec Guinness polishing his glasses with his tie.
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- KRB
- 06-17-15
New media for a classic English thriller
le Carre's seminal work is done great justice by Michael Jayston. Few collaborations put the audiobook on the level of the hard copy. This is one.
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- J. Gebner
- 06-25-21
CLASSIC.
TTSS earned it's place among the best spy novels.
This is a first-rate audio book, thanks to Michael Jayston's excellent reading.
Fans of the BBC production will be amazed at his Alec Guinness "impression."
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-08-19
Just incredible
Don’t miss this book. The plot is fascinating, and the narrator is the best I’ve ever heard. Le Carré nails it
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- EM
- 04-30-16
Perhaps I'm inattentive
Very did spy story, you can see why other stories would be inspired by this. I felt like I had a hard time following along and couldn't keep the characters straight. It could be me, I might not have been paying close enough attention or the story wasn't clear enough. I'm going to give the story the benefit of the doubt.
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- Paul Konkol
- 09-26-17
Amazing story, wonderfully performed
John Le Carre's amazing novel of the dogged investigative powers of George Smiley is brought to vivid life by the wonderful performance of Michael Jayston who captures the tone of British 1970s Cold War tradecraft perfectly.
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