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Any spy novelist working today must contend with the legacy of John le Carré, and it's a rare author who earns comparison with the master. Le Carré's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and his trilogy starring British intelligence hero George Smiley and nemesis "Karla" are classics of Cold War literature, but the closing of that era has not left le Carré at loose ends: His later novels have departed for new milieus with no sacrifice of intrigue.

John le Carré, who has maintained his position as the undisputed master of espionage fiction for several decades with novels like A Perfect Spy and The Night Manager, returns with a work being touted as one of his finest. Single and Single involves a deadly game played out in the fierce arena of international finance.

Newsweek

Swell writing.