Single and Single is a novel by John le Carré. It is the story of a British customs and excise officer on the trail of elusive fraudster Tiger Single, helped by Tiger's son Oliver, Brock of customs and excise unravels the mystery of an international money laundering operation. PLOT The novel is written in a non- linear narrative, switching back and forth through time.

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  • Single and Single is a novel by John le Carré. It is the story of a British customs and excise officer on the trail of elusive fraudster Tiger Single, helped by Tiger's son Oliver, Brock of customs and excise unravels the mystery of an international money laundering operation. PLOT The novel is written in a non- linear narrative, switching back and forth through time. It begins with the cold- blooded execution of Alfred Winser, a corporate Lawyer with the firm Single and Single, for reasons he cannot comprehend. Oliver Hawthorne is a down-at -heel children's entertainer who is lodging in Devon with Elsie and her son Sammy. Eventually we learn that he is none other than the son of Tiger Single, the high flying financier responsible for laundering millions of dollars for two Russian brothers. Four years earlier, Oliver had flown the nest and betrayed his father to Brock, a customs official; uneasy from the start, he is appalled and devastated when he learns they are laundering drug money, too. But the past is about to catch up with Oliver, and now he must try to save the father he once betrayed. THEMES Oliver Single is a complex character, disaffected and clumsy, a giant of a man, who has tried for years to lose his identity. He gave up a glittering lifestyle and career for his principles. However, he cannot abandon his father and risks everything to save him, even though, in a moment of pure clarity, he sees his father for the empty and amoral scoundrel he really is. The story reads like many of John Le Carre's earlier spy novels, and much spycraft is applied in the hunt for Tiger Single. Now that the wall is down, the enemy is not so clearly defined. In his search for his father, he realises that his betrayal was not the only one. The book takes the reader to Georgia, Istanbul and a greedy, sparkling West End of London.
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  • Single and Single is a novel by John le Carré. It is the story of a British customs and excise officer on the trail of elusive fraudster Tiger Single, helped by Tiger's son Oliver, Brock of customs and excise unravels the mystery of an international money laundering operation. PLOT The novel is written in a non- linear narrative, switching back and forth through time.
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