# The Little Drummer Girl - Paperback

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by **John Le Carré** (Author)

**From the _New York Times_ bestselling author of _Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy_; _Our Kind of Traitor;_ now a miniseries on AMC starring Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Shannon, and Florence Pugh.**

_"You want to catch the lion, first you tether the goat."_

On holiday in Mykonos, Charlie wants only sunny days and a brief escape from England's bourgeois dreariness. Then a handsome stranger lures the aspiring actress away from her pals--but his intentions are far from romantic. Joseph is an Israeli intelligence officer, and Charlie has been wooed to flush out the leader of a Palestinian terrorist group responsible for a string of deadly bombings. Still uncertain of her own allegiances, she debuts in the role of a lifetime as a double agent in the "theatre of the real."

Haunting and deeply atmospheric, John le Carré's _The Little Drummer Girl_ is a virtuoso performance and a powerful examination of morality and justice.

With an introduction by the author.

### Author Biography

John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a con man, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, _Call for the Dead_, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, _The Spy Who Came in from the Cold_, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy _Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy_, _The Honourable Schoolboy_, and _Smiley's People_. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, _The Pigeon Tunnel_, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, _A Legacy of Spies_, appeared in 2017. He died on December 12, 2020.

**Number of Pages:** 560

**Dimensions:** 1.3 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN

**Publication Date:** June 28, 2011

## Details

- **Price:** 26.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Espionage, Fiction, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers

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