From the New York Times bestselling author of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”; “Our Kind of Traitor”; now a miniseries on AMC starring Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Shannon, and Florence Pugh.
"You want to catch the lion, first you tether the goat."
On holiday in Mykonos, Charlie wants only sunny days and a brief escape from England’s bourgeois dreariness. Then a handsome stranger lures the aspiring actress away from her pals—but his intentions are far from romantic. Joseph is an Israeli intelligence officer, and Charlie has been wooed to flush out the leader of a Palestinian terrorist group responsible for a string of deadly bombings. Still uncertain of her own allegiances, she debuts in the role of a lifetime as a double agent in the “theatre of the real.”
Haunting and deeply atmospheric, John le Carré’s “The Little Drummer Girl” is a virtuoso performance and a powerful examination of morality and justice.
Adjoa Andoh's remarkable skills of characterization and pacing are on full display in this reissue of le Carr�'s novel of espionage and manipulation in the Middle East. When a na�ve English actress, Charlie, agrees to work undercover for an Israeli spy to identify a Palestinian terrorist, she is co-opted by morally ambiguous people on both sides. Andoh gives Charlie a light, sweet voice and an uns
