{"product_id":"book-af7p","title":"Single \u0026 Single","description":" \u003cp\u003eA lawyer from the London finance house of Single \u0026amp; Single is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children's magician in the English countryside is asked by his bank to explain the unsolicited arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust. A freighter bound for Liverpool is boarded by Russian coast guards in the Black Sea. The celebrated London merchant venturer \"Tiger\" Single disappears into thin air.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSingle \u0026amp; Single\u003c\/i\u003e the writer who both epitomizes and transcends the novel of espionage opens with a haunting set piece, then establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious, complex and compelling. This is a story of corrupt liaisons between criminal elements in the new Russian states and the world of legitimate finance in the West. Le Carr├®'s finest novel in years, it is also 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is territory le Carr├® knows better than anyone. Masterful and prescient, he is writing at the height of his creative powers, and Oliver Single, the central protagonist, is one of his most fascinating characters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347952967984,"sku":"BDaf7p","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/255244-af7p-Square.jpg?v=1734210311","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-af7p","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}