{"product_id":"absolute-friends-by-john-le-carre-9780241321935","title":"Absolute Friends","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story of two friends whose dubious relationship spans West Berlin in the 1960s through the Cold War to the age of present-day terrorism is new to Penguin Modern Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947 in a newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe two men meet first as students in the riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties and again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage. When they meet once more, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror, and the war of lies, they become involved in clandestine activities—with lethal results.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbsolute Friends\u003c\/em\u003e is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46249825009900,"sku":"9780241321935","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241321935.jpg?v=1741519556","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/absolute-friends-by-john-le-carre-9780241321935","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}