Absolute Friends

john le carré

The epic "New York Times" bestseller by the master of international intrigue--now in paperback--spans the lives of two friends from the riot-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold War Europe to the present day of terrorism and new alliances.

Genres fictionthrillerespionagemysteryspy thrillermystery thrillercrimeaudiobooknovelsbritish literature

480 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 1,2003

This edition

Format: 480 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published: August 1, 2005 by Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 9780316058773
ASIN: 0316058777
Language: English

Characters More characters

Ted Mundy

Pakistani-born son of a British army officer, who as a student becomes proficient in the German language. He joins a 1960s-era student protest group in West Berlin and becomes a lifelong friend of a West German student anarchist named Sasha. He fails at s...
Sasha

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The Major

Mundys alcoholic father.more...
Kate Mundy

Ted Mundys ex-wife.more...
Zara

Mundys Turkish girlfriend.more...
Mustafa

Zaras 11-year-old son.more...

About the author

john le carré

John le Carré, the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England), was an English author of espionage novels. Le Carré had resided in St Buryan, Cornwall, Great Britain, for more than 40 years, where he owned a mile of cliff close to Land's End.