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008			120313s1999 nyu 000 1 eng
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050	0	0	_aPR6062.E33 _bS49 1999
082	0	0	_aFIC LEC
100	1		_aLe Carre, John _d(1931- 2020)
245	1	0	_aSingle & single _b: a novel _c/ John Le Carré
246	3		_aSingle and single
260			_aNew York _b: Scribner _c, c1999.
300			_a345 p. _c; 25 cm.
520			_aA 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.
650		0	_aFamily owned business enterprises _x--Fiction
650		0	_aInvestment bankers _v--Fiction
650			_aMoney laundering _v-Fiction
650		4	_aFathers and sons _v--Fiction
650		0	_aOrganized crime _x--Fiction
651			_aEngland _v--Fiction
651		4	_aRussia _v--Fiction
655		7	_aAdventure stories
655			_aDomestic fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c229680 _d229680