A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Frères, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. A triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the so-called War on Terror, the spies of three nations converge upon the innocents. Poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is alive with humour, yet prickles with tension until...
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2011-06-26
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I kriget mot terrorismen är sanningen inte alltid så viktig. Ensamma, olyckliga människor hamnar i kläm. Vemodigt och med en bitter eftersmak.
2009-07-27
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Börjar tiktigt bra men efter 250 sidor spårar det ur. Istället för att handla om ett enskilt människoöde i kamp mot EUs imigrationslagar övergår den till någon form av parodi av olika säkerhetstjänster. Synd.
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