Absolute Friends

by John Le Carre

Ted Mundy has lived a very complicated life. Now working as a tour guide in Germany (and spending most of his time dodging creditors), Ted was once a spy for the British government. Life is difficult but predictable for the disillusioned Ted until he encounters his old friend and fellow former spy, Sasha. Sasha has big, seemingly idealistic plans--plans that involve Ted and a wealthy philanthropist named Dimitri. Getting involved in Sasha's scheme could make Ted a very wealthy man. But who is Dimitri? And why is all his money tied to Middle Eastern bank accounts?

Editions of Absolute Friends

ISBN 9780316058773	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Grand Central Pub	Date 2005	Price $1.00	Used - Acceptable
ISBN 9780340832875	Binding/Format Book	Publisher Hodder & Stoughton	Date 2004	Price $1.00	Used, Very Good
ISBN 9780340832882	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Hodder & Stoughton	Date 2004	Price $1.00	Very Good
ISBN 9781594833076	Binding/Format Digital	Publisher Time Warner Audiobooks	Date	Price None Available
ISBN 9780316159395	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Little Brown & Co	Date 2004	Price $1.00	Very Good

Publisher Notes

Follows the lives and fates of two friends and fellow ex-spies, Ted Mundy and Sasha, as they attempt to change their lives and the world in which they live, chronicling their exploits from West Berlin in the 1960s, through the politics of Cold War Europe, to the terrorism of the present day.

Media Reviews

"ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is intentionally provocative, and it will win the desired outrage from those who support the Bush policies, just as it will please those who oppose them. It is a polemic, in a tradition that goes back to Shakespeare's portrait of Richard III, Swift's modest proposal and Orwell's 1984. History can decide whether Le Carré is right or wrong, prophet or crank, but no one can deny that for the world's leading spy novelist, a man with roots deep in British intelligence, to take on the White House with such ferocity is a political event of note, whatever its literary merits."

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