'An adventure that takes us to the ends of the earth via the rich but often barren landscape of the human heart' - The Times Why was an English lawyer shot dead in Turkey by his firm's top client$83 How can a down-at-heel magician in Devon explain the vast fortune that has mysteriously appeared in his daughter's trust fund$84 With customs officer Nat Brock on the trail, the answers point to the House of Single - once a respectable finance company, now entangled with a Russian crime syndicate.
West is pitted against East, and the British establishment against a labyrinthine criminal superpower, in le Carre's searing novel of lives built upon lies.