LE CARRE, JOHN (PSEUD. DAVID JOHN MOORE CORNWELL ] - A Small Town in Germany

London, Heinemann. 1968, 1st UK Ed.. (ISBN: 0434109304) Hardcover. Book, "Only the Foreign Office", a junior diplomat remarks, "could have sent a bull to catch a matador." The bull is Alan Turner, a rough-necked, rough-mouthed, lovable misfit from Foreign Office Security; the matador is Leo Harting, a middle-aged Second Secretary from the British Embassy in Bonn, "a sprite, weightless as the dark, slipping through the shadows as if they were a net". This is the man who, after twenty years of apparently loyal service to the Crown, has vanished, taking with him official files hot enough to frustrate or indeed compromise the entire British position at the negotiating table at Brussels, where a faltering British Government is making a desperate last attempt to save the national economy and get into the Common Market. In this atmosphere of approaching crisis, Alan Turner, therefore, is despatched from London to find Harting. "Which do they want?" he asks, "The man or the files?" Gradually it becomes clear that one is not enough without the other." Previous owner's book plate of ffep, else fine. Fine/Fine.

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