Absolute Friends

John le Carré

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English

Penguin
01 December 2020

Fiction & Literature; Espionage & spy thriller

Series: The Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection

The story of two friends whose relationship spans West Berlin in the 1960s through the Cold War to the age of present day terrorism

The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947 in a newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West.

The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties and again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage. When they meet once more, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies, they become involved in clandestine activities - with lethal results.

Absolute Friends is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our time

By: John le Carré
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 388g
ISBN: 9780241337240
ISBN 10: 0241337240
Series: The Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 01 December 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

John le Carre was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton before serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.