This &;beautifully written, propulsive&;timely as today&;s headlines&; (Los Angeles Times) bestselling novel about spies in the War on Terror is &;le Carré&;s strongest, most powerful novel&;extraordinary&; (The New York Times Book Review). A Most Wanted Man is also a major motion picture starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, and Robin Wright.A half-starved young Russian in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg in the dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, is determined to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client&;s survival becomes more important her than her own career&;or safety. In pursuit of Issa&;s mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg. Annabel, Issa, and Brue form an unlikely alliance&;and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the so-called War on Terror, the spies of three nations converge upon the innocents...