For the avid reader, discerning collector and real John le Carré fan,

a very good, signed, 1st UK edition / 1st printing hardcover copy of

John le Carré

Absolute Friends

Hodder & Stoughton, London / UK, 2004

"Absolute Friends is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours. The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies.
Deriving its scale from "A Perfect Spy" and its passion from "The Constant Gardener", Le Carré's novel presents us with magical writing, characters to delight, and a spellbinding story that enchants even as it challenges." (From the book)

"David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), better known by his pen name John le Carré, is a British author ofespionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author." (Wikipedia)