Editor’s October Bedside Table Reading Recommendation

Secret agents, international ambiguity, utter realism, espionage, deceipt and humanism. Many of the words to describe Johne le Carre’s “A Most Wanted Man”.

From Publisher’s Weekly: When boxer Melik Oktay and his mother, both Turkish Muslims living in Hamburg, take in a street person calling himself Issa at the start of this morally complex thriller, they set off a chain of events implicating intelligence agencies from three countries. Issa, who claims to be a Muslim medical student, is, in fact, a wanted terrorist and the son of Grigori Karpov, a Red Army colonel whose considerable assets are concealed in a mysterious portfolio at a Hamburg bank. Tommy Brue, a stereotypical flawed everyman caught up in the machinations of spies and counterspies, enters the plot when Issa’s attorney seeks to claim these assets.

Trust me, this belongs in your book collection.

Cost: $18 @ Amazon (Available 10.7.2008)