Absolute Friends

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Ted Mundy is a man history keeps recruiting against his will — an aimless British expatriate who finds himself drawn into the turbulence of 1960s student radicalism in Berlin, wher e he forges an unlikely and enduring friendship with Sasha, a passionate East German agitator. Decades later, with the Cold War long buried and both men adrift in a changed world, Sasha reappears with a proposal that promises purpose and redemption — but in le Carré's universe, old friendships reactivated by strangers rarely end well. Moving from the idealism of '68 to the shadowy post-9/11 landscape of the War on Terror, Absolute Friends is a slow-burning and deeply melancholy novel about loyalty, betrayal, and the way great powers exploit the small lives caught in their machinery — vintage le Carré, and one of his most politically charged. Show more