Аннотация: The Russia House

John le Carre's first post-glasnost spy novel, The Russia House captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command them
Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between, the beautiful Katya. Both are lonely and disillusioned. Each is increasingly certain that if the human race is to have any future, all must betray their countries ...

Автор/составитель	Ле Карре Джон
Серия	Penguin Modern Classics
Год выпуска	2011
ISBN	9780141196350
Производитель	Penguin
Количество томов	1
Количество страниц	454
Переплет	Мягкая обложка
Размеры	197x128x20 мм
Цвет	Чёрный
Вес	316
Язык	английский