John Le Carré - Single &

In the mountains of Turkey, a corporate lawyer is shot dead in cold blood for crimes he not only did not commit, but did not even understand. An amateur magician who performs on children's shows is being questioned at his bank to explain how he got millions of pounds into his account. A Russian cargo ship is intercepted in the Black Sea. A celebrated and influential London financial professional disappears without a trace. An English customs officer uncovers corruption and murder. The wild capitalism of the East is slowly but surely reaching the Western world, leaving disfigured people, trampled corpses and corrupted souls everywhere. A new world is being born.

John le Carré's intricate and brilliantly written novel, published in 1999 - which the reader can now pick up in a new translation - is an astonishing journey into the heart of modern man and into the deepest recesses of the present.