Single & Single is an espionage thriller by John le Carré, set in the uneasy world of post-Cold War finance, organized crime and international intelligence. The story begins with a lawyer from the London firm Single & Single being killed in Turkey, while Oliver Single, the estranged son of a powerful merchant banker known as Tiger Single, is pulled back toward a family business he has tried to escape. As British investigator Nathaniel Brock follows a trail linking money laundering, Russian criminal networks and respectable European banking, Oliver is forced to confront the moral cost of loyalty to a corrupt father. The novel combines spy fiction, financial suspense and family betrayal, focusing on the blurred line between private guilt and public crime.
Author: John le Carré
Publisher: Scribner
Year published: 1999
Number of pages: 345