"Le Carre is more than just a great storyteller.In SINGLE & SINGLE, he captures the Zeitgeist itself." --Tom Wolfe

"Any reader who feared that the end of the cold war would deprive Mr. le Carre of his subject can now feel a measure of relief. If anythinga his subject of East-West misunderstanding has grown richer, and he now possesses vast new territories to mine."--The New York Times

From SINGLE & SINGLE’s "tour de force opening"(Kirkus Reviews), le Carre masterfully establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious,complex and compelling. He fashions a story of corrupt liaisons between criminal syndicates in the new Russian states and the legitimate world of Western finance. He also intimately portrays two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits; one betrayed by a son-in-law,the other betrayed--and redeemed--by a son. An enthralling, multilayered tale by an author at the height of his creative powers, SINGLE & SINGLE is le Carre’s finest novel in years.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20