Mimi Perrin Boeken

We are in a new arena of intrigue where the old rivalries of great nations have been suplanted by the ravages of individual greed. We are in a new world of espionage where the habits and rules forged by past generations of spies are put to more shocking use. We are inside the international cartel of illegal arms dealers and drug smugglers, now rising to unheard-of power under the command of men whose ruthlessness is matched only by their limitless hunger for unlimited wealth. I is this worlds, in all its brilliant corruption, that John le Carré now opens up for us. His peerless gifts -- hismastery of storytelling and characterization -- have never been more stuningly empoyed. In The Night Manager, the hypnotic narrative is charged by a luminous understanding of the paradoxes implicit in our perceptions of evildoing and virtue.John le Carré was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Berne and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, his third book, secured him a worldwide reputation. He divides his time between England and the Continent.

Gilbert Selwyn, an unemployed, gay schemer, and Moira Finch, his demonically conniving fiancee, engage their friends, their families, and their wits in a plan to stage a wedding and make off with a fortune in wedding gifts. Set in contemporary New York and reminiscent of the comedies of P.G. Wodehouse and Preston Sturges, Blue Heaven is the uproarious tale of a mostly unlikely couple and their brilliant plan to earn a fortune on the way to the altar.

Vier verhalen, verteld tijdens een hoorzitting over de toekomst van een topspion bij de Britse inlichtingendienst, over de zeer moeilijke operaties die deze man tot een goed einde wist te brengen.

Een Engelse spion en zijn vrouwelijke Duitse tegenvoeter bevinden zich na de val van de Berlijnse Muur in een vacuüm dat lijkt te worden gevuld als zich na 9 september 2001 een nieuwe vijand aandient.

Een Brit probeert in Rusland te ontdekken wat er aan de hand is met een naar Engeland gesmokkeld manuscript.