HomeGroupsTalkMoreZeitgeist
Search Site
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

Results from Google Books

Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.

Loading...

A Most Wanted Man (2008)

by John le Carré

Other authors: See the other authors section.

MembersReviewsPopularityAverage ratingMentions
2,967894,625 (3.47)84
A half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg form an unlikely alliance as the rival spies of Germany, England and America scent a sure kill in the "War on Terror," and converge upon the innocents.… (more)
Recently added byRini55, private library, michaels207, mozey56, kmilev, RoninReads
  1. 00
    Indvandreren by Olav Hergel (2810michael)
  2. 00
    Flygtningen by Olav Hergel (2810michael)
  3. 00
    Harbor by Lorraine Adams (davidpwhelan)
    davidpwhelan: Both books share plots that deal with mistaken identity, circumstantial evidence, war on terror, ascribing hostility to others based on race or religious background, and are well-written thrillers.
  4. 00
    The Night Manager by John le Carré (John_Vaughan)
  5. 00
    The Mission Song by John le Carré (John_Vaughan)
  6. 00
    Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré (John_Vaughan)
Loading...

Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 84 mentions

English (78)  Spanish (3)  French (2)  German (2)  Swedish (1)  Finnish (1)  Danish (1)  Dutch (1)  All languages (89)
Showing 1-5 of 78 (next | show all)
Second version… about halfway read. Published 2008 but a slightly different book format!
  njkost | Jun 14, 2023 |
I got about halfway through this book and still could not get into it so I stopped reading. I had a hard time becoming attached to any of the characters so I really didn't care what happened. However, I think that I don't do well with Le Carre books as I always feel this way with his novels.
  sgwordy | Dec 31, 2022 |
9788467234190
  archivomorero | Nov 9, 2022 |
Excellent. I’ve loved reading le Carre starting with his Smiley books. I was watChing this movie because it had Phillip Seymour Hoffman in it and was struck by how it plotted like le Carre; and looked on IMBD to find out it was le Carre.
I liked how the book spent time exploring the friction and backbiting among the agencies. And I can see how the role of Bachman would appeal to Hoffman ( )
  jimgosailing | Nov 18, 2021 |
This is the first Le Carre book I have read - but certainly not the best. I shall have to read some of the most famous ones. ( )
  sujitacharyya | Sep 25, 2021 |
Showing 1-5 of 78 (next | show all)
 

» Add other authors (12 possible)

Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
John le Carréprimary authorall editionscalculated
Rees, RogerNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.
For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.
Canonical title
Original title
Alternative titles
Original publication date
People/Characters
Important places
Important events
Related movies
Epigraph
The golden rule is, to help those we love to escape from us.
~ Friedrich von Hügel
Dedication
For my grandchildren,
born and unborn
First words
A Turkish heavyweight boxing champion sauntering down a Hamburg street with his mother on his arm can scarcely be blamed for failing to notice that he is being shadowed by a skinny boy in a black coat.
Quotations
The staple of your private banker's life, Brue liked to pontificate after a scotch or two in amiable company, was not, as one might reasonably expect, cash. It wasn't bull markets, bear markets, hedge funds or derivatives. It was cock-up. It was the persistent, he would go so far as to say the permanent sound, not to put too fine an edge on it, of excrement hitting your proverbial fan. So if you didn't happen to like living in a state of unremitting siege, the odds were that private banking wasn't for you.
The driver was holding open the rear door. He was young and blond, a boy in his prime.
I am a Muslim medical student. I am tired and I wish to stay at your house.
He had the assurance of wealth but none of its arrogance. His facial features, when not battened down for professional inscrutability, were affable and, despite a lifetime in banking or because of it, refreshingly unlined.
If there are people in the world for whom espionage was ever the only possible calling, Bachmann was such a person.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)
Disambiguation notice
This is the book; do not combine with the movie that is an adaption of this book.
Publisher's editors
Blurbers
Original language
Information from the German Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to your language.
Canonical DDC/MDS
Canonical LCC

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English (2)

A half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg form an unlikely alliance as the rival spies of Germany, England and America scent a sure kill in the "War on Terror," and converge upon the innocents.

No library descriptions found.

Book description
Haiku summary
Lawyer; terrorist;
Banker; lots and lots of spies.
But who can you trust?
(Noisy)

Current Discussions

None

Popular covers

Quick Links

Rating

Average: (3.47)
0.5
1 10
1.5 3
2 54
2.5 12
3 153
3.5 57
4 181
4.5 13
5 53

Is this you?

Become a LibraryThing Author.

Recorded Books

An edition of this book was published by Recorded Books.

» Publisher information page

 

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 202,658,143 books! | Top bar: Always visible