《Smiley's People》是Sceptre出版的圖書,作者是John Le Carré
基本介紹
- 作者:John Le Carré
- 出版時間:2009年11月26日
- 出版社:Sceptre
- 頁數:464 頁
- ISBN:9780340993781
- 定價:8.99 元
- 裝幀:Paperback
內容簡介
Smiley's People is one of John le Carre's classic Cold War novels and George Smiley one of his most acclaimed characters. Into a shadowy, violent and intricate world steeped in moral ambivalence steps George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus, as the Secret Service is known. His brief is to bury crime, not solve it, as he fights his own private battle from London to Pa...(展開全部) Smiley's People is one of John le Carre's classic Cold War novels and George Smiley one of his most acclaimed characters. Into a shadowy, violent and intricate world steeped in moral ambivalence steps George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus, as the Secret Service is known. His brief is to bury crime, not solve it, as he fights his own private battle from London to Paris and to Hamburg for his last duel with his Russian opposite number, codnamed Karla. 約翰·勒卡雷 英國國寶級文學大師 全球最暢銷間諜小說作家 原名大衛·康威爾(David Cornwell),1931年生於英國。18歲被英國軍方情報處招募,擔任對東柏林的間諜工作;退役後在牛津大學攻讀現代語言,之後於伊頓公學教授法文和德文。1959年進入英國外交部,同時開始寫作。1963年以第三本著作《柏林諜影》一舉成名,奠定其文壇大師地位。知名小說家格林盛讚:“這是我讀過的最好的間諜小說!” 勒卡雷一生得獎無數,包括1965年美國推理作家協會愛倫坡獎,1964年英國毛姆獎、James Tait Black紀念獎,1988年獲頒英國犯罪推理作家協會(CWA)終身成就獎,即鑽石匕首獎(另外在1963年與1977年兩次獲頒金匕首獎),以及義大利Malaparte獎。已出版作品總計21部,有11部被改編為電影或電視劇。

