The Pigeon Tunnel

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life was a delightful, entertaining and very personal memoir written by one of my favorite spy novelists, David Cornwell, best known by his. “The Pigeon Tunnel is the literary equivalent of a long night spent in the company of a grand storyteller, who has saved up a lifetime of his best tales to share with you over.

The Pigeon Tunnel By John Le Carre
Pigeon Tunnel Review
The Pigeon Tunnel By John Le Carre

'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.'         From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire or the opening bars of Beethoven’s Fifth, visiting Rwanda’s museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide, celebrating New Year’s Eve 1982 with Yasser Arafat and his high command, interviewing a German woman terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev, listening to the wisdoms of the great physicist, dissident, and Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, meeting with two former heads of the KGB, watching Alec Guinness prepare for his role as George Smiley in the legendary BBC TV adaptations, or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in The Constant Gardener, le Carré endows each happening with vividness and humor, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood.      Best of all, le Carré gives us a glimpse of a writer’s journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters. Available for purchase at: <a href='http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735210047?tag=randohouseinc7911-20'>Amazon - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href='http://www.anrdoezrs.net/links/2665379/type/dlg/sid/PRHD39095A662--9780735210042/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/?ean=9780735210042 '>Barnes & Noble - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href='http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2665379-10876509?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780735210042&url=http://www.booksamillion.com/p/9780735210042'>Books A Million - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href='http://www.hudsonbooksellers.com/book/9780735220775?utm_source=prh&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_term=301&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780735220775&utm_campaign=9780735220775'>Hudson Booksellers</a><a href='http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780735210042?aff=PenguinGroupUS'>IndieBound - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href='http://www.powells.com/book/-9780735210042?utm_source=randomhouse&utm_campaign=randomhouse&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780735210042'>Powell's - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href='http://goto.target.com/c/128773/81938/2092?subId1=PRHD39095A662--9780735220775&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com%2Fs%3FsearchTerm%3D9780735220775'>Target</a><a href='http://linksynergy.walmart.com/fs-bin/click?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&subid=&offerid=183959.1&type=10&tmpid=273&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780735210042&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-ng.do%3F&RD_PARM2=search_query%3D9780735210042%2526ic%3D16_0%2526Find%3DFind%2526search_constraint%3D3920'>Walmart - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href='https://google.prf.hn/click/camref:1011ld4r/pubref:PRHD39095A662--9780735220799/destination:https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9780735220799&c=books'>Google Play Store</a><a href='http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearch?term=The+Pigeon+Tunnel&entity=audiobook&at=11l3IH&ct=PRHD39095A662--9780735210059'>iBooks - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href='http://click.linksynergy.com/link?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&offerid=258185.12829781935712206&type=2&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780735220799&murl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobobooks.com%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.html%3Fq%3D9780735220799'>Kobo</a><a href='http://www.qksrv.net/click-2665379-10273919?url=http://www.audible.com/search?advsearchKeywords=The+Pigeon+Tunnel+John+le+Carr%c3%a9&source_code=COMA0213WS031709&SID=PRHD39095A662--9780735210059'>Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href='http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2665379-11117375?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780735210059&url=http://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/9780735210059'>audiobooks.com - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href='http://www.downpour.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=9780735210059'>downpour - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href='http://www.qksrv.net/click-2665379-10273919?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780735210059&url=http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/search/book/The+Pigeon+Tunnel'>eMusic - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a>

The Pigeon Tunnel By John Le Carre

Pigeon Tunnel Review

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