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The Little Drummer Girl

John le Carré

  • 572 pages · about 10 hours
  • First published 1983
  • 26 editions
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1 About this book

Charlie is a promiscuous, unsuccessful, left-wing English actress in her twenties, searching for commitment. We meet her first with a group of acting kids, taking a holiday on the Greek island of Mykonos. Kurtz is an officer of Israeli intelligence, whose job is to stop the bombing of Jews in Europe. The Little Drummer Girl is a thrilling, deeply moving and courageous novel of our times.

Good for readers who want: spy fiction and a long read.

  • Spy stories
  • Thrillers, espionage
  • Arab-Israeli conflict
  • Actresses
  • Intelligence officers in fiction
  • In fiction
  • Intelligence officers
  • Terrorism in fiction

2 About John le Carré

1931–2020

David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), known by his pen name John le Carré ( lə-KARR-ay), was an English author. Many of his espionage novels have been adapted for film or television. He has been described as a "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", and is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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