03519cam a2200397 4500 535535282 TxAuBib 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780316145220 031614522X B000FC0YKY Amazon 566c6c37-0032-42fe-bd48-5f8e98386216 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 50593 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Le Carre, John, 1931- Absolute Friends [Libby eBook]. Little, Brown and Company, 2004. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1168kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:Today, 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.<br /> In <i>Absolute Friends</i>, 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. Historical Fiction. Thriller. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement Award. Grand Master Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-17 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/566/C6C/37/AbsoluteFriends9780759508699.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=566C6C37-0032-42FE-BD48-5F8E98386216&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/566/C6C/37/AbsoluteFriends9780759508699.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=566C6C37-0032-42FE-BD48-5F8E98386216&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/566/C6C/37/AbsoluteFriends9780759508699.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=566C6C37-0032-42FE-BD48-5F8E98386216&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXLIV