false 3281277 26 <b>New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love or pity and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fabric of John le Carré's fiercely compelling and current novel <I>A Most Wanted Man.</i></b><P>A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa.<P>Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career -- or safety. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Frères, a failing British bank based in Hamburg.<P>Annabel, Issa and Brue form an unlikely alliance -- and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror," the rival spies of Germany, England and America converge upon the innocents.<P>Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, <I>A Most Wanted Man</i> is a work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times. 3317593 book 7 10 2008 A Most Wanted Man total:636|5:8|4:23|3:25|2:15|1:7| 636 2169 1051 222 4881055 0670069124 9780670069125 34 7 3.41 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4881055.Most_Wanted_Man 2 7 false Thu Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 12:50:28 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 10:39:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5894038 0743579232 9780743579230 4 2 3.41 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5894038.A_Most_Wanted_Man 5 6 false Thu Nov 27 13:31:35 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 13:44:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3211898 0743579259 9780743579254 8 4 3.41 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255899899m/3211898.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3211898.A_Most_Wanted_Man 4 3 false Thu Jun 26 09:06:48 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 09:08:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3281277 1416594884 9781416594888 503 181 3.41 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255899879m/3281277.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3281277.A_Most_Wanted_Man 5 4 false Mon Dec 15 07:31:50 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 07:33:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3281277 1416594884 9781416594888 503 181 3.41 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255899879m/3281277.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3281277.A_Most_Wanted_Man 3 1 false Fri Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 18:39:19 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 13:39:12 -0700 2008 It seems he ran out...more...]]> 3211898 0743579259 9780743579254 8 4 3.41 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255899899m/3211898.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3211898.A_Most_Wanted_Man 5 1 false Sun Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 14:53:58 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 14:59:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3281277 1416594884 9781416594888 503 181 3.41 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255899879m/3281277.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3281277.A_Most_Wanted_Man 4 2 false Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 08:34:43 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 08:45:54 -0800 2008 The Constant Gardener (a film I quite enjoyed, though that was partly because of the gorgeous cinematography), but that was about it. 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"I feel like John le Carre is thought of as the grand old man of spy fiction. But his books really aren't what I tend to think of when I think of spy novels--they're alway...more...]]> 3281277 1416594884 9781416594888 503 181 3.41 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255899879m/3281277.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3281277.A_Most_Wanted_Man 5 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 14:26:54 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 14:33:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3281277 1416594884 9781416594888 503 181 3.41 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255899879m/3281277.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3281277.A_Most_Wanted_Man 5 0 false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 06:12:23 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 06:50:39 -0800 2008 A Most Wanted Man most certainly meets the standards I have come to expect from this author.

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