Издания и произведения

Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between, the beautiful Katya. Both are lonely and disillusioned. Each is increasingly certain that if the human race is to…

It is the third summer of perestroika. Barley Blair, London publisher, receives a smuggled document from Moscow. It contains technical information of overwhelming importance. But is it genuine? Is the author genuine? A plant? A madman? Blair, jazz-loving, drink-marinated, disheveled, is hardly to the taste of the spymasters, yet he has to be used - sent to the Soviet Union to make contact. Katya, the Moscow intermediary, is beautiful, thoughtful, equally skeptical of all state ideology. Together, as the safe clich?s of hostility disintegrate, they may represent the future - an idea that is anathema to the entrenched espionage…

It is the third summer of perestroika. Barley Blair, London publisher, receives a smuggled document from Moscow. It contains technical information of overwhelming importance. But is it genuine? Is the author genuine? A plant? A madman? Blair, jazz-loving, drink-marinated, dishevelled, is hardly to the taste of the spymasters, yet he has to be used - sent to the Soviet Union to make contact. Katya, the Moscow intermediary, is beautiful, thoughtful equally sceptical of all state ideology. Together, as the safe cliches of hostility disintegrate, they may represent the future - an idea that is anathema to the entrenched espionage…

Трудно найти две более несовместимые вещи, чем любовь и война, однако встреча британского издателя Барли Блэйра с русской женщиной Катей Орловой произошла именно на `переднем крае` холодной войны. Против собственной воли они оказались втянуты в игру спецслужб ведущих держав, развернувшуюся вокруг рукописи известного советского ученого, содержание которой способно взорвать хрупкое мировое равновесие. Джон Ле Карре, в прошлом кадровый сотрудник британской разведки, а сегодня один из самых популярных в мире писателей, с большим мастерством анализирует внутренний конфликт, разгорающийся в душе человека, вынужденного делать нелегкий выбор между…

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Это еще один из немногих романов Джона Ле Карре (Дэвида Корнуэлла), переведенных на русский язык. Люди и ситуации в романе показаны сквозь призму личного опыта автора, накопленного за годы службы в английской разведке. Художественное произведение, разумеется, не может быть зеркальным отражением процессов, происходящих в реальной жизни, но в "Русском Доме" чувствуется надежда на перемены к лучшему в отношениях между Востоком и Западом. Книга рассчитана на широкий круг любителей политического детектива.

It is the third summer of perestroika. Barley Blair, London publisher, receives a smuggled document from Moscow. It contains technical information of overwhelming importance. But is it genuine? Is the author genuine? A plant? A madman? Blair, jazz-loving, drink-marinated, dishevelled, is hardly to the taste of the spymasters, yet he has to be used - sent to the Soviet Union to make contact. Katya, the Moscow intermediary, is beautiful, thoughtful, equally sceptical of all state ideology. Together, as the safe clichés of hostility disintegrate, they may represent the future - an idea that is anathema to the entrenched espionage…