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From the critically acclaimed, best-selling author of Our Game and The Night Manager comes an action-packed new thriller, set in Panama, that come straight from the pages of today's current news media. 300,000 first printing. Major ad/promo. BOMC & QPB Main.
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John le Carré, the greatest spy novelist of the Cold War era, continues his post-Cold War quest to define the genre he helped perfect. The classic spy novel was essentially a story of good (England, the United States) vs. evil (Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union), in which good more or less prevailed. The Tailor of Panama is something else entirely: a spy novel with no spies in which the bad guys reap most of the rewards. It is also a viciously funny satire. The novel is set in Panama, where a plot is in place to make void the Panama Treaty, which would return control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanians in 1999. At the center of events is Harry Pendel, the tailor of the title. Coerced into working for British Intelligence, he concocts out of whole cloth a left-wing movement with the goal of luring the American military to do the dirty work--invade Panama à la 1989 and nullify the treaty. From the characters to the setting, le Carré has succeeded in setting new parameters for an old genre.
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0679454462
- ISBN 13 9780679454465
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages331
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THE TAILOR OF PANAMA
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Alfred A Knopf Inc, N.Y.
(1996)
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ISBN 13: 9780679454465
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st editionb, so stated. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Color Endpaper painting by W.B. Van Ingen. 2 black and white maps. "Harry Pendel is the "Tailor of Panama," a haberdasher whose clients include the Panamanian president, the commanding American general, and most of the country's powerful and influential men. Harry is happily married to Louisa, daughter of an American engineer and devoted staff member to a liberal Panamanian politician. But Harry's life is a lie; he has invented the person whose life he lives. He is also badly in debt, the result of having been double-crossed by his own bank. That debt, and knowledge of the jailbird he once was, are what make Harry prey to a smarmy British agent who believes Harry knows or can learn the deepest secrets of Panama. Harry doesn't, but he's adept at making up what people want to hear, even if it is a geopolitical conspiracy on a grand scale. By turns comic and tragic, this is the kind of reading experience we have come to expect from le Carre." -- Library Journal. Book. Seller Inventory # 020442
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