A Small Town in Germany

By: John le Carré

Narrated by: Michael Jayston

Brought to you by Penguin.

West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As he gets closer to the truth of Harting's disappearance, he will discover that the face of Cold War Europe - and the attentions of the British Ministry itself - are far uglier that he could possibly have imagined.

Le Carré's searing Cold War novel creates a world where the lines between right and wrong, good and evil, are horribly blurred.

'Brilliant, unforgettable ... a masterpiece' New Statesman

'Exciting, compulsively readable and brilliantly plotted' The New York Times

© le Carré Productions 1968 (P)Penguin Audio 2024

Excellent. A detailed, complex story that keeps one engaged and on-edge until the final word. Trust no one.

A masterful, complex portrait of two damaged anti-heroes trying to navigate a precarious, post-war Europe. The pressure keeps mounting relentlessly. Trust no one. Michael Jayston is the perfect narrator for Le Carré. This is one of his best performances.