About the Book With an introduction by the author--Cover. Book Synopsis New York Times bestselling author John le Carrs novels deftly navigate us through the intricate shadow worlds of international intrigue with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. A lawyer from a London finance house is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A childrens magician in the English countryside is asked to explain the arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughters modest trust. In Single & Single, le Carr masterfully establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious, complex and compelling. He tells of corrupt liaisons between criminal elements in the new Russian states and the world of legitimate finance in the West. He also paints an intimate portrait of 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. Review Quotes People Le Carr reveals a world at once deeply disquieting and oddly reassuring. The New York Times Any reader who feared that the end of the Cold War would deprive Mr. le Carr of his subject can now feel a measure of relief. If anything, his subject of East-West misunderstanding has grown richer, and he now possesses vast new territories to mine.