The Russia House

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The Russia House

By: John le Carré

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

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John le Carré'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 ...

'Classic le Carré'
Sunday Times

John le CarréGildart JacksonPenguin Audio

Classics

Espionage

Spies & Politics

Thriller & Suspense

Russia

Soviet Union

Classics Espionage Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Russia Soviet Union

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… finally gets going into classic Le Carre territory. Not his strongest spy novel, but suitably twisty, and reflective of the UK/US intelligence relationship at the time, But the real bonus is the unadvertised 30 min Afterword - a context setting autobiographical reflection written and narrated by Le Carré himself …. a little gem of a piece, and eerily prophetic of the phoenix-like reassertion of Russia and the failure of the US in 2025.