Absolute Friends - Couverture souple

Angry, pessimistic and deeply romantic (Joan Smith, Independent)

The master has not lost his touch ... one of his most enthralling creations. (A.N. Wilson, Telegraph)

No reader, whatever his politics, could fail to be moved by the passion and intelligence of le Carre's lastest. (Publishers Weekly)

Absolute Friends is classic le Carré and that means fiction of a very high order (Roy Hattersley, Independent on Sunday)

We need only to read the first page of Absolute Friends to know that once again we are in the accomplished hands of a master storyteller (P.D. James, Mail on Sunday)

Few could fail to be thrilled by the unbridled rage that fuels his storytelling. If he was seething when he wrote The Constant Gardener, he is now incandescent. (Robert McCrum, Observer)

le Carré brings the thriller face to face with contemporary politics and, in the process has once again demonstrated his mastery of his chosen genre (Robert McCrum, Observer)

Le Carré is the Pringles of literature: once you've started one of his novels, you'll invariably chomp straight through (Time Out)

A literary master for a generation (Observer)

Thoroughly gripping (Sunday Times)

This is vintage John le Carre (The Times)

Le Carré poses deep spiritual questions about the damage [the human] race has done, and continues to do, both to the planet and to itself. He does so in a page-turner which reminds us that the master storyteller of the Smiley books has lost none of his cunning (A.N. Wilson, Daily Mail, on THE CONSTANT GARDENER)

John le Carré was born in 1931. His third novel, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, secured him a wide reputation which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY and SMILEY'S PEOPLE. His other novels include THE CONSTANT GARDENER, A MOST WANTED MAN and OUR KIND OF TRAITOR.