![]() ![]() After a series of low-level jobs, he takes a job at a library, where he meets Liz. He loses his job in the Banking Section of British intelligence through a fake embezzlement scam. He appears to be slipping into a drunken and desolate state. Leamas begins to put the mission into practice. Leamas expects to be fired but instead Control gives him a new and complicated mission to bring down the head of East German intelligence, Mundt. When his agent, Karl Riemeck, is killed crossing the border into West Berlin, Leamas returns to London to explain the situation to his boss, Control. The novel explores the danger and intrigue of 1960s era Cold War espionage and the individuals caught up in it.Īlec Leamas is the head of British Intelligence in West Germany and oversees the spy missions in East Berlin. His personal and professional loyalties come in to play as he realizes that nothing is how it seems. All goes according to plan until Leamas finds himself before a secret tribunal that seeks to expose him as a British spy. In this story of Cold War espionage in a divided Germany, Alec Leamas is a British secret agent who becomes a double agent in order to bring down the head of the Communist intelligence agency in East Germany. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this book will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of. ![]() ![]() As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.īill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body…įull of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Bryson-esque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular.Īs Bill Bryson writes, "We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted." The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous, compulsively readable facts and information. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up. Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. Beneath that, and not technically part of the skin, is a subcutaneous layer where fat is stored. ![]() ![]() ![]() They live near Salt Lake City, Utah with their four small children, and their pet, a small, plastic pig. Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem. She co-wrote the hit graphic novel Rapunzel's Revenge and its sequel Calamity Jack with husband Dean Hale. 3.55 86,988 Ratings 11,707 Reviews published 2007 47 editions. She has written three books for adults, including the upcoming Midnight in Austenland (Jan. Shannon Hale is the New York Times best-selling author of six young adult novels: the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy, multiple award winner Book of a Thousand Days, and the highly acclaimed Books of Bayern series. ![]() ![]() She co-wrote the hit graphic novel Rapunzel's Revenge and its sequel Calamity Jack with husband Dean Hale. She has written three books for adults, including the upcoming Midnight in Austenland (Jan. Austenland EndingAdapted from the novel by Shannon Hale, Austenland centers on a Jane Austen -obsessed woman ( Keri Russell) who takes the trip of a. ![]() ![]() |