"Le Carre remains far in front in his field, a startlingly up-to-date storyteller who writes as well about the shadows around the power elite as anyone alive." -Publishers Weekly Le Carre's Panama is a Casablanca without heroes, a hotbed of drugs, laundered money and corruption. It is also the country which on December 31, 1999, will gain full control of the Panama Canal. Seldom has the weight of politics descended so heavily on such a tiny and unprepared nation. And seldom has the hidden eye of the British Intelligence selected such an unlikely champion as Harry Pendel - a charmer, a dreamer, an evader, a fabulist and presiding genius to the house of Pendel & Braithwaite Co. Limitada, Tailors to Royalty, formerly of London and presently of Panama City. Yet there is a logic to the spies' choice, for everybody who is anybody in Cental America passes through Pendel's doors. He dresses politicos and crooks and conmen. His fitting room hears more confidences than the priest's confessional. And when Harry Pendel doesn't hear things as such - well, he hears them anyway, by other means. In a thrilling, hilarious AudioBook, le Carre once again effortlessly expands the borders of the spy story to bring us a magnificent entertainment straight out of the pages of tomorrow's history.
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“John le
Carré is a magnificent reader of his own work. His professional narration may
extend to only six or seven of his titles, but his articulate, caustic
rendition beautifully captures both the sinister and the absurd angles of his
latest novel. An expatriate of dubious background, Harry Pender becomes the
respected confidant of generals, gangsters, and patriots in modern-day Panama.
Le Carré’s description of Harry and his dealings with a host of colorful
characters—at the behest of the British government—is masterful, and his
narration captures all Harry’s uncertainty and bravura. He handles the wealth
of internal dialogue and introspection with vitality, never letting the
listener out of the web.”
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