{"product_id":"absolute-friends-paperback","title":"Absolute Friends - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Le Carré\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"stunningly timely spy novel\" that takes readers from 1960s West Berlin to the Iraq War (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) from the author of \u003ci\u003eTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Spy Who Came In From the Cold.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday, Mundy is a down-at-the-heels tour guide in southern Germany, dodging creditors, supporting a new family, and keeping an eye out for trouble while in spare moments vigorously questioning the actions of the country he once bravely served. And trouble finds him, as it has before, in the shape of an old German student friend, radical, and onetime fellow spy, the crippled Sasha, seeker after absolutes, dreamer, and chaos addict. After years of trawling the Middle East and Asia as an itinerant university lecturer, Sasha has yet again discovered the true, the only, answer to life -- this time in the form of a mysterious billionaire philanthropist named Dimitri. Thanks to Dimitri, both Mundy and Sasha will find a path out of poverty, and with it their chance to change a world that both believe is going to the devil. Or will they? Who is Dimitri? Why does Dimitri's gold pour in from mysterious Middle Eastern bank accounts? And why does his apparently noble venture reek less of starry idealism than of treachery and fear? Some gifts are too expensive to accept. Could this be one of them? With a cooler head than Sasha's, Mundy is inclined to think it could. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAbsolute Friends\u003c\/i\u003e, John le Carre delivers the masterpiece he has been building to since the fall of communism: an epic tale of loyalty and betrayal that spans the lives of two friends from the riot-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold War Europe to the present day of terrorism and new alliances. This is the novel le Carre fans have been waiting for, a brilliant, ferocious, heartbreaking work for the ages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A searing, startling novel that sweeps through much of the twentieth century and up to the present conflict with Iraq.\" --Lev Grossman, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn le Carré\u003c\/b\u003e's \u003ci\u003eThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold\u003c\/i\u003e secured him a wide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy \u003ci\u003eTinker Tailor Soldier Spy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Honourable Schoolboy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSmiley's People\u003c\/i\u003e. His recent novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Tailor of Panama\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Constant Gardener\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAbsolute Friends\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.23 x 8.2 x 5.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 10, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42694678052927,"sku":"9780316159395","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/474e328bb2ee4a6c83662280ba85114c.webp?v=1765001917","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/absolute-friends-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}