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Author: John le Carre
First Published: 2004
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: 1968-2003
Setting: Berlin, Munich, Heidelberg, and London
Principal Characters: Edward (Teddy) Mundy, Sasha, Dimitri, Orville J. Rourke, Nick Amory, Kate, Zara
Genres: Long fiction, Adventure, Spy fiction
Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, Europe or Europeans, 1980’s, England or English people, Espionage or spies, 1990’s, Germany or German people, Great Britain, Berlin, 2000’s
Locales: Berlin, Germany, Munich, Germany

Absolute Friends marks John le Carré's highly controversial foray into the post-Cold War world of shifting alliances, international tensions, and unlikely collaborations which stem from personal and national histories and unleash their disastrous effects in the novel's present, 2003. Le Carré established himself as a master of the espionage genre with his third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), a realistic treatment of the spy world that served as a stark contrast to the then-popular chronicles of James Bond penned by Ian Fleming. In a total of seventeen...

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