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Single and single

A lawyer from the London finance house of Single & 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.

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  • "Single and single"
  • "Single and single"@en
  • "Single and single"@pl
  • "Single y single"
  • "Sinnkl kai sinnkl"
  • "Single et Single"
  • "Single en Single"
  • "Single & Single"
  • "Singe und Single"
  • "Singl i singl"
  • "Single i single"
  • "Single and Single"@en
  • "Single and Single"
  • "Single et single"
  • "Single und Single"
  • "Single & single"

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  • "Two families, one Russian and the other English, are linked by a criminal enerprise."
  • "Een Engelse bank, die zijn grootste profijt uit allerlei criminele activiteiten haalt, raakt in de problemen met Russische leveranciers."
  • "Lawyer found shot dead on a Turkish hillside."
  • "A lawyer from the London finance house of Single & 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."@en
  • "The Orlov brothers, black marketeers in the chaos of the new Russia, take a dim view of being betrayed by their money-laundering British bank, Single & Single. In this story's stunning opening scene, they express their dismay by shooting one of the bank's employees and sending a video of the assassination to bank president Tiger Single, who runs for his life. Tiger's son Oliver, disgusted with the Russians' greed and dismayed by his flamboyant father's immorality, had turned the Orlovs in to British customs four years earlier. Living quietly under a new identity, Oliver discovers a huge deposit has been made in his daughter's bank account, which can only mean that Tiger has located him."
  • "A crooked father and an honest son are the protagonists of this novel on money laundering. The father is Tiger Single, owner of a British investment house, laundering money for criminals. His dream is to see his son follow in his footsteps, but the son is honest and will not have anything to do with him--until the father's life is threatened."
  • "Adventure stories of London England and Russia."@en
  • "A lawyer from the London finance house of Single & Single In Single & Single This 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."@en
  • "Un avocat londonien exécuté par un gang mafieux en Turquie, un magicien pour enfants convoqué par sa banque pour expliquer l'arrivée d'une somme colossale sur le compte de sa fille, un cargo russe arraisonné dans la mer Noire ... Une intrigue dont les thèmes centraux sont l'amour, la famille et l'humanisme triomphant. Un voyage mouvementé au coeur de la haute finance et du crime."
  • "The high-stakes world of international finance turns deadly as a lawyer from a London banking house is murdered, a London merchant banker vanishes, a Russian freighter is intercepted in the Black Sea, and a children's magician discovers an unexplained fortune in his daughter's trust fund."@en
  • "A story of corrupt liasons between criminal elements in the new Russian states and the world of legimate finance in the West. Two families, one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits."

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  • "Spy stories"
  • "Spy stories"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Novela estadounidense"@es
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Cuentos de aventuras"@es
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Roman d'aventures"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@es
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Adventures fiction"@en
  • "Novela doméstica"@es
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Adventure stories"
  • "Adventure stories"@en
  • "French language materials"
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Adventure fiction"@es

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  • "辛格家族"
  • "Single and Single"
  • "Singl & singl"
  • "Sinnkl & sinnkl"
  • "Dôc Hô"
  • "Single & Poika"
  • "Độc hỏ̂ : tiẻ̂u thuyé̂t"
  • "Single and single"@en
  • "Single and single"
  • "Single & single : roman"
  • "Single & Single"@hu
  • "Single & Single"@sl
  • "Single & Single"@sv
  • "Single & Single"@ca
  • "Single & Single"
  • "Single & Single"@en
  • "辛格家族 = Single & single"
  • "Single [and] single"
  • "Xinge jia zu"
  • "Xin ge jia zu"
  • "Single & single (sound recording)"@en
  • "Doc ho"
  • "Single and single. [read by John Le Carre]"@en
  • "Single & single"@en
  • "Single & single"@es
  • "Single & single"@pl
  • "Single & single"
  • "Single & single"@it
  • "Single & single"@ca
  • "Single & single"@sl
  • "Single & Single Roman"
  • "Single & Single a Novel"@en
  • "Single & single a novel"
  • "Single & single a novel"@en
  • "Xin ge gong si"
  • "Singl & singl : [roman]"
  • "辛格公司 = Single & single"
  • "Single & single : a novel"
  • "Single & single : a novel"@en
  • "Singl & Singl"
  • "Xin ge jia zu = Single & single"
  • "Single & Single : Roman"
  • "Single & [e] Single"
  • "Single & [and] single"
  • "Single & single : Roman"
  • "Single & poika"@fi
  • "Single & Single : roman"@da
  • "Single & Single : roman"
  • "Single & [et] Single : roman"
  • "Xin-ge gong si = Single & single"
  • "辛格公司"
  • "Single & Single : a novel"@en

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