John le Carré: Single & Single

John le Carré: Single & Single (UK 2020)

From the Publisher:
Why was an English lawyer shot dead in Turkey by his firm's top client? How can a down-at-heel magician in Devon explain the vast fortune that has mysteriously appeared in his daughter's trust fund? With customs officer Nat Brock on the trail, the answers point to the House of Single - once a respectable finance company, now entangled with a Russian crime syndicate.

West is pitted against East, and the British establishment against a labyrinthine criminal superpower, in le Carré's searing novel of lives built upon lies.

John le Carré: Single & Single. Penguin Classics, ISBN: 9780241337318 (August, 2020), 384 p., £15.99.

John le Carré: Single & Single (UK 2018)

West is pitted against East, and the British establishment against a labyrinthine criminal superpower, in le Carré's searing novel of lives built upon lies.

John le Carré: Single & Single. Penguin Classics, ISBN: 9780241322505 (September, 2018), 384 p., £8.99, eBook £4.99.

John le Carré: Single & Single (UK 2006)

From the Publisher:
A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand. A children's entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the Black Sea. A celebrated London financier has disappeared into thin air. A British customs officer is on a trail of corruption and murder.

SINGLE & SINGLE is a thrilling journey of the contemporary human heart - intimate, magical, riotous and subtly architected, showing us John le Carré at the height of his dramatic and creative powers.

John le Carré: Single & Single. Sceptre, ISBN: 0340937718 (September, 2006), 351 p., £7.99.

John le Carré: Single & Single (USA 2003)

From the Publisher:
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international intrigue with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim.

SINGLE & SINGLE
A lawyer from a London finance house 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 to explain the arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust.

In Single & Single, le Carré masterfully establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious, complex and compelling. He tells of corrupt liaisons between criminal elements in the new Russian states and the world of legitimate finance in the West. He also paints an intimate portrait of two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits; one betrayed by a son-in-law, the other betrayed, and redeemed, by a son.

John le Carré: Single & Single. With an introduction by the author. Scribner's, ISBN: 0743458060 (February, 2003), 368 p., $16.00.

John le Carré: Single & Single (UK 2001)

SINGLE & SINGLE is a thrilling journey of the contemporary human heart - intimate, magical, riotous and subtly architected, showing us John le Carre at the height of his dramatic and creative powers.

John le Carré: Single & Single. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 0340733721 (September, 2001), 351 p., £17.99.

John le Carré: Single & Single (UK 2000)

John le Carré: Single & Single. Sceptre, ISBN: 0340766557 (November, 2000), 351 p., £6.99.

John le Carré: Single & Single (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
From Single & Single's "tour de force opening" (Kirkus Reviews), le Carré masterfully establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious, complex and compelling. He fashions a story of corrupt liaisons between criminal syndicates in the new Russian states and the legitimate world of Western finance. He also intimately portrays two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits; one betrayed by a son-in-law, the other betrayed-and redeemed-by a son. An enthralling, multilayered tale by an author at the height of his creative powers, Single &: Single is le Carré's finest novel in years.

John le Carré: Single & Single. A Novel. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671027972 (March, 2000), 387 p., $7.99.

John le Carré: Single & Single (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
When a corporate lawyer is murdered in Turkey, a string of events occur, from the arrest of a Russian freighter to the disappearance of a London financier. The logical connection must be one of love, deceit or the triumph of humanity.

John le Carré: Single & Single. Coronet, ISBN: 0340738995 (February, 2000), 415 p., £6.99.

John le Carré: Single & Single (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
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. Le Carré's finest novel in years, it is also an intimate portrait of two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits; one betrayed by a son-in-law, the other betrayed, and redeemed, by a son.

This is territory le Carré knows better than anyone. Masterful and prescient, he is writing at the height of his creative powers, and Oliver Single, the central protagonist, is one of his most fascinating characters.

John le Carré: Single & Single. Scribner's, ISBN: 0684859262 (March, 1999), 345 p., $26.00.

John le Carré: Single & Single (UK 1999)

The logical connection of these events is one of the many pleasures of this extraordinary new novel of love, deceit, family and the triumph of humanity. On le Carré's roller-coaster, we hurtle from a seaside haven in Devon through the sophisticated jungle of West End wheeler-dealing, the crime-driven streets of post-Communist Russia to a billionaires' fastness on the banks of the Bosphorus and a secret paradise in the High Caucasus. But Single & Single is above all a thrilling journey of the contemporary human heart - intimate, magical, riotous and subtly architected, showing us John le Carré at the height of his dramatic and creative powers.

John le Carré: Single & Single. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 0340738979 (March, 1999), 336 p., £16.99.