Single & single
(2012)

Fiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2012
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (720 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781442359123 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT12207145, 1442359129 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 12207145
LANGUAGE
English
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A lawyer from the London finance house of Single & Single is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children's magician is asked by his bank to explain the unsolicited arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust. A freighter bound for Liverpool is boarded by Russian coast guards in the Black Sea. The celebrated London merchant venturer "Tiger" Single disappears into thin air.I n Single & Single the writer who both epitomizes and transcends the novel of espionage opens with a haunting set piece, then establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious, complex, and compelling. This is a story of corrupt liaisons between criminal elements in the new Russian states and the world of legitimate finance in the West. Le Carř's finest novel in years, it is also an intimate portrait of two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits; one betrayed by a son-in-law, the other betrayed, and redeemed, by a son. This is territory le Carř knows better than anyone. Masterful and prescient, he is writing at the top of his creative powers, and Oliver Single, the central protagonist, is one of his most fascinating characters

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