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Carre, John Le : ABSOLUTE FRIENDS

Hodder & Stoughton, 2004

ISBN 9780340832875

A highly collectible first edition,printing tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not a n Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. A ferocious new novel from the master: when a man's good heart is his worst enemy. . . By chance and not by choice, Ted Mundy, eternal striver, failed writer, and expatriate son of a British Army officer, used to be a spy. But that was i n the good old Cold War days when a cinder-block wall divided Berlin and th e enemy was easy to recognize. Today, Mundy is a down-at-heel tour guide in southern Germany, dodging cred itors, supporting a new family, and keeping an eye out for trouble while in spare moments vigorously questioning the actions of the country he once br avely served. And trouble finds him, as it has before, in the shape of his old German stu dent friend, radical, and one- time fellow spy, the crippled Sasha, seeker a fter 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 Dim itri. Thanks to Dimitri, both Mundy and Sasha will find a path out of pover ty, and with it their chance to change a world that both believe is going t o the devil. Or will they? Who is Dimitri? Why does Dimitri's gold pour in from mysterious Middle East ern bank accounts? And why does his apparently noble venture reek less of s tarry idealism than of treachery and fear? Some gifts are too expensive to accept. Could this be one of them? With a cooler head than, As New/As New

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