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Le Carré, John, 1931-2020.
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Tailors -- Fiction.
Panama -- Fiction.
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Le Carré, John, 1931-2020.
Tailors -- Fiction.
Panama -- Fiction.
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The
tailor
of
Panama
/ John Le Carre.
by
Le Carré, John, 1931-2020.
Viking, c1996.
Call #:
FICTION LEC
Subjects
Tailors -- Fiction.
Panama
-- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780143169536 (2008 Penguin Canada pbk.)
9780679454465 (1996 Alfred A. Knopf : hc)
0679454462 (1996 Alfred A. Knopf : hc)
9780670873432
0670873438
0140263179 (Penguin pbk.)
Description:
331 p. : maps.
Summary:
Harry Pendel, the
Tailor
of the title, who's half-blackmailed half-bribed into spying for Britain. Pendel's a voluntary exile from a rather sordid lower-class existence in Britain, who's remade himself (and promoted himself socially) in the exile and wanna-be Brit community of
Panama
. He lies to everyone about his background, so when he becomes a British spy, it should come as no surprise that he immediately begins to fabricate information there, too. Pendel's controller is Andy Osnard, a shady character with hidden agendas of his own, and behind him there's a rogue's gallery of crooked embassy officials, government functionaries, American soldiers, espionage service supervisors, and even a Murdoch-like media baron who tries to create the news in order to better report it ala William Randolf Hearst. The heads of two governments decide to invade a country on the basis of the fabrications of this silly
tailor
who's trying to recoup his wife's inheritance, which he lost in a bad investment.
Genre:
Spy stories.
Satire
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