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Authors: John Le Carre

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THE AUTHOR WISHES TO THANK:

Yassin Musharbash of Spiegel Online, for his tireless and painstaking researches; Clive Stafford Smith, Saadiya Chaudary and Alexandra Zernova with the U.K. charity Reprieve
*
and Bernhard Docke

in Bremen for their legal wisdoms; the writer and journalist Michael Jürgs of Hamburg, for his fruitful introductions and close reading of the early drafts; Helmuth Landwehr, former private banker, for initiating me into the ways of his less-scrupulous erstwhile colleagues; Anne Harms and Annette Heise of flucht•punkt,
*
Hamburg, for allowing me to create in Sanctuary North a fictional sister organization to their own, complete with fictional staff and fictional clients; and the writer and Middle East expert Said Aburish, for his wise promptings. And Carla Hornstein who, by an accident of life, started me on the journey and provided me with invaluable introductions and advice.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J
OHN LE
C
ARRÉ
was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Berne and Oxford, he spent five years in the British Foreign Service.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
, his third book, secured him a worldwide reputation. He is the author of twenty-one novels, including
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; A Perfect Spy
and
The Constant Gardener
. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages. He lives in England.

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Reprieve uses the law to deliver justice and save lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay. flucht•punkt provides legal and other assistance to asylum seekers and stateless persons in the region of Hamburg. Both organizations are registered charities.

† Bernhard Docke is the pro bono legal representative of Murat Kurnaz, the Turkish German Muslim unjustly imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay for four and a half years.

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Reprieve uses the law to deliver justice and save lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay. flucht•punkt provides legal and other assistance to asylum seekers and stateless persons in the region of Hamburg. Both organizations are registered charities.

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