"Le Carre is more than just a great storyteller.In SINGLE & SINGLE, he captures the Zeitgeist itself." --Tom Wolfe
"Any reader who feared that the end of the cold war would deprive Mr. le Carre of his subject can now feel a measure of relief. If anythinga his subject of East-West misunderstanding has grown richer, and he now possesses vast new territories to mine."--The New York Times
From SINGLE & SINGLE’s "tour de force opening"(Kirkus Reviews), le Carre masterfully establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious,complex and compelling. He fashions a story of corrupt liaisons between criminal syndicates in the new Russian states and the legitimate world of Western finance. He also intimately portrays two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits; one betrayed by a son-in-law,the other betrayed--and redeemed--by a son. An enthralling, multilayered tale by an author at the height of his creative powers, SINGLE & SINGLE is le Carre’s finest novel in years.
