Single & single : a novel
Le Carre, John (1931- 2020)
Single & single : a novel Single and single / John Le Carré - New York : Scribner , c1999. - 345 p. ; 25 cm.
A lawyer from the London finance house of "Single & Single" is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children's magician in the English countryside is asked by his bank to explain the unsolicited arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust. A freighter bound for Liverpool is boarded by Russian coast guards in the Black Sea. The celebrated London merchant venturer "Tiger" Single disappears into thin air. In "Single & Single" the writer who both epitomizes and transcends the novel of espionage opens with a haunting set piece, then establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious, complex and compelling. This is a story of corrupt liaisons between criminal elements in the new Russian states and the world of legitimate finance in the West.
9780684859262
98047174
Family owned business enterprises----Fiction
Investment bankers----Fiction
Money laundering ---Fiction
Fathers and sons----Fiction
Organized crime----Fiction
England----Fiction
Russia----Fiction
Adventure stories
Domestic fiction
PR6062.E33 / S49 1999
FIC LEC
Single & single : a novel Single and single / John Le Carré - New York : Scribner , c1999. - 345 p. ; 25 cm.
A lawyer from the London finance house of "Single & Single" is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children's magician in the English countryside is asked by his bank to explain the unsolicited arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust. A freighter bound for Liverpool is boarded by Russian coast guards in the Black Sea. The celebrated London merchant venturer "Tiger" Single disappears into thin air. In "Single & Single" the writer who both epitomizes and transcends the novel of espionage opens with a haunting set piece, then establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious, complex and compelling. This is a story of corrupt liaisons between criminal elements in the new Russian states and the world of legitimate finance in the West.
9780684859262
98047174
Family owned business enterprises----Fiction
Investment bankers----Fiction
Money laundering ---Fiction
Fathers and sons----Fiction
Organized crime----Fiction
England----Fiction
Russia----Fiction
Adventure stories
Domestic fiction
PR6062.E33 / S49 1999
FIC LEC
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