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855: 312:. After Mundy's death, Amory, his controller from the British intelligence service during his espionage years, tries to publicize the truth, but slander by the British government results in his story being totally discredited. Mundy's girlfriend and her son are deported, and Germany enters the War on Terror; per their wills, Mundy and Sasha are each buried beside their mothers in their respective home countries. 299:
contact is somehow involved in the scheme. Going to the schoolhouse one night, Mundy realizes too late that the boxes of books he and Sasha have been receiving in fact contain bomb-making materials and military grade weaponry; he and an arriving Sasha are both shot to death by a waiting American
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student anarchist named Sasha. Having been brutally beaten by West Berlin police and ejected from Germany, Mundy fails at several careers; as a teacher at an English prep school, as a newspaper reporter, a radio interviewer, and a novelist.
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strike force. After their deaths, Sasha's past with the Stasi and Mundy's Islamic sympathies are used by the CIA and right-leaning American press outlets to portray them as
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secret police. On a trip to East Germany with a youth theatre group, Mundy and Sasha meet again. By this time Sasha has become totally disillusioned with the
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with left-leaning sympathies. Initially excited to participate, Mundy becomes skeptical when he learns that he and Sasha's former
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and he recruits Mundy to help him smuggle them out of East Germany and deliver them to MI6, the
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and enlists the naïve Mundy to become a double agent. Sasha has access to
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Ted Mundy: The student activist, British spy and naïve ideologue.
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Index


John le Carré
Spy fiction
Hodder & Stoughton
Hardback
Paperback
ISBN
0-340-83287-8
OCLC
53124233
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
The Constant Gardener
The Mission Song
espionage novel
John le Carré
Pakistan
West Berlin
West German
British Council
East Germany
Stasi
Communist Bloc
state secrets
British Secret Service
Berlin Wall
Neuschwanstein Castle
Turkish
Islam
9/11

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