The little drummer girl - John le Carré

A novel of chilling perception and prophetic insight, arousing controversy and confrontation on its first publication, The Little Drummer Girl also represents a dramatic departure by John le Carré from the world of Smiley's People, and has been a record-breaking bestseller throughout the world.

In this master storyteller's most powerful, most heart-stopping novel yet, the scene is England, West Germany, Greece, Israel and the Palestinian camps. The hunter is fiercely passionate Kurtz, an officer with Israeli intelligence. his quarry is a Palestinian, cunning, ruthless, stateless and nameless, whose primitive bombs have slaughtered Jews across Europe. Between the hunter and hunted the snare is laid. She is Charlie, a young English actress, perilously alone on a mission to the dark heart of international terrorism.