John Le Carre – Knjiga.hr

The Russia House

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:54:21 +0000

A quietly powerful Cold War thriller from John le Carré, the master of literary espionage, this novel explores the murky border between political duty and personal conscience. When a British publisher becomes an unlikely intermediary for a Soviet scientist’s explosive manuscript about the USSR’s nuclear capabilities, he is drawn into a web of intelligence services, mistrust, and moral ambiguity. Set against the waning years of the Cold War, the story examines loyalty, truth, and the human cost of geopolitical gamesmanship. Subtle, character-driven, and rich in atmosphere, it will appeal to readers who value psychological depth and realism over action-driven spy fiction.

The Naive and Sentimental Lover

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:03:13 +0000

A departure from John le Carré’s celebrated espionage fiction, this 1971 novel turns its gaze inward to explore obsession, self-deception, and emotional betrayal. The story follows Aldo Cassidy, a respectable art dealer whose carefully ordered life begins to unravel after he befriends a charismatic young drifter and becomes entangled in a fraught triangle involving the drifter’s girlfriend. What begins as fascination slides into jealousy and moral compromise, exposing the vulnerabilities beneath middle-class propriety. Le Carré, best known for his masterful Cold War spy novels, brings the same psychological acuity and precise prose to this intimate drama. Readers interested in character-driven fiction, studies of masculinity and desire, and the darker undercurrents of seemingly ordinary lives will find this an intriguing and unsettling work.

Silverview

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:07:02 +0000

Silverview by John le Carré is a gripping espionage novel centered on Julian Lawndsley, a former city professional who leaves his high-flying job to run a small bookstore in a quiet English seaside town. His tranquil life is disrupted when he meets Edward Avon, a mysterious Polish émigré with a complex past as a retired MI6 agent and former communist. As suspicions of a dangerous intelligence leak arise, the story explores themes of innocence versus experience and public duty against private morals. Silverview delves deeply into loyalty, secrets, and the blurred lines between truth and deception in the world of espionage, asking what one owes to their country when it is no longer recognizable. This was John le Carré’s final novel, published posthumously, and is noted for its thoughtful, suspenseful narrative.

The Night Manager

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:09:25 +0000

A special edition of le Carré’s first post-Cold War novel, to tie in with the new major BBC series starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, with a new afterword by the author. At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities – about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings – backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine. In a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies, billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade, John le Carré creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted.

Silverview

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:11:24 +0000

Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea… Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.

Agent Running in the Field

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:02:59 +0000

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie. Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all.

Nezgodna istina

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:30:48 +0000

U britanskom prekomorskom posjedu Gibraltaru izvedena je protuteroristička operacija kodnog naziva Divljač. Cilj je bio zarobiti i oteti opasnog džihadskog trgovca oružjem. Organizatori su bili ambiciozni britanski doministar vanjskih poslova, doministrov prisan prijatelj, inače čelnik privatne sigurnosne kompanije, i sumnjivi američki CIA-in operativac koji pripada ekstremnoj kršćanskoj desnici. Ta je operacija toliko osjetljiva da čak ni doministrov privatni tajnik Toby Bell ne smije o njoj išta znati. A on sluti da je njegov šef upetljan u nešto tajnovito i sporno, možda i tragično, ali ne zna što.

A Most Wanted Man

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:23:17 +0000

A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation, Soon her client’s survival becomes more important to her than her own career – or safety. In pursuit of Issa’s mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Freres, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. Annabel, Issa and Brue form an unlikely alliance and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the War on Terror, the rival spies of Germany. England and America converge upon the innocents.

Our Kind of Traitor

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:47:24 +0000

In this exquisitely told novel, John le Carré shows us once again his acute understanding of the world we live in and where power really lies. In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world’s Number One money-launderer and who wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an interrogation by the British Secret service who also need their help. Their acquiescence will lead them on a precarious journey through Paris to a safe house in Switzerland, helpless pawns in a game of nations that reveals the unholy alliances between the Russian mafia, the City of London, the government and the competing factions of the British Secret Service.

Mali grad u Njemačkoj

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:41:00 +0000

Nestaje čovjek. Harting, izbjegličko podrijetlo, nešto mlađi u Britanskoj ambasadi u Bonnu. S njim su nestala četrdeset i tri dosjea, svi su povjerljivi ili iznad. Od vitalne je važnosti da Nijemci ne saznaju da je Harting nestao, niti da je došlo do curenja informacija. Uz nemire radikalnih studenata i neonacista i kritične pregovore koji su u tijeku u Bruxellesu, tajming nije mogao biti gori — a to vjerojatno nije slučajno. Alan Turner, londonski službenik sigurnosti, poslan je u Bonn da pronađe nestalog čovjeka i dokumente dok prošlost, sadašnjost i budućnost Njemačke prijete da se sudare u noćnoj mori nasilja.