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The Russia House

JOHN LE CARRE

John le CaRRt was born in 1931. He

attended the universities of

Bern and Oxford. Later he taught at

Eton and spent five years in

the British Foreign Service. THE SPY

WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD,

his third book, secured him a wide

reputation and was followed by

THE LOOKING-GLASS WAR, A SMALL TOWN

IN GERMANY, THE NAIVE AND

SENTIMENTAL LOVER, and his trilogy

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, THE

HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY and SMILEY'S

PEOPLE. His most recent novels

are THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL and A

PERFECT SPY. Though he divides

his time between England and the

continent, he is most at home in

Cornwall.

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PENGUIN BOOKS

Published by the Penguin Group

Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 2801 John

Street, Markham, Ontario

L3R 1134

Peenguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane,

London W8 5TZ, England

Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street,

New York, New York 10010,

USA

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood,

Victoria, Australia

Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, 182-190 \%irau

Road, Auckland 10,

New Zealand

Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices:

Harmondsworth, Middlesex,

England

First published in Viking by Penguin

Books Canada Limited, 1989

Published in Penguin Books, 1990

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1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2

Copyrigh& David Cornwell, 1989

PuMshers note: This book is a a work

offiction. Names, dwwters, places

and mcklents eidier are the product of the

author~ imagination or are used

fictidously, and any resemblarice to

actual persons Living or dead, events,

locales is entirely coinci&ntal.

Manufactured in Canada

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication

Data

Le Carrt, John, 1931

The Russia House

ISBN 0-14-013342-9

1. Title.

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PR6062.E33R881990 823'.914

C90-0932964

Except in the United States of America,

this book is sold subject to the

condition that it shall not, by way of

trade or otherwise, be lent,

re-sold, hired-out, or otherwise

circulated without the publisher's prior

consent in any form of binding or cover

other than that in which it is

published and without a similar condition

including this condition

being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

For Bob Gottlieb, a great editor and a

long-suffering friend

'Indeed, I think that people want peace

so much that one of these days

governments had better get out of their

way and let them have it.'

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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- 'One must think like a hero to behave

like a merely decent human

being.'

May Sarton

FOREWORD

A knowledgements in novels can be as

tedious as credits at the cinema, yet

I am constantly touched by the

willingness of busy people to give their

time

and wisdom to such a frivolous

undertaking as mine, and I cannot miss

this

opportunity to thank them.

I recall with particular gratitude the

help of Strobe Talbott, the

illustrious Washington journalist,

Sovietologist and writer on nuclear

defence. If there are errors in this

book they are surely not his, and

there would have been many more without

him. Professor Lawrence Freedman,

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the author of several standard works on

the modern conflict, also allowed

me to sit at his feet, but must not be

blamed for my simplicities.

Frank Geritty, for many years an agent

of the Federal Bureau of

Investigation, introduced me to the

mysteries of the lie-detector, now

sadly called the polygraph, and if my

characters are not as complimentary

about its powers as he

the reader should blame them, not him.

I must also offer a disclaimer on behalf

ofjohn Roberts and his staff at

the Great Britain-USSR Association, of

which he is Director. It was he who

accompanied me on my first visit to the

USSR, opening all sorts of doors

for me that might otherwise have stayed

shut. But he knew nothing of my

dark intent, neither did he probe. Of

his staff, I may mention particularly

Anne Vaughan.

My Soviet hosts at the Writers' Union

showed a similar

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discretion, and a largeness ofspirit that

took me by surprise. Nobody who

visi6 the Soviet Union in these

extraordinary years, and is privileged to

conduct the conversations that were

granted me, can come away without in

enduring love for its people and a sense

of awe at the scale of the problems

that face them. I hope that my Soviet

friends will find reflected in this

fable a little of the warmth that Lfelt

in their company, and of the hopes

we shared for a saner and more

companionable future.

jazz is a great unifier and I did not

want for friends when it came to

Barley's saxophone. Wally Fawkes, the

celebrated cartoonist andjazz player,

lent me his musician's ear, and John

Calley his perfect pitch both in words

and music. If such men would only run

the world I should have no more

conflicts to write about.

John le Carr~

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. CHAnER s I ,

N a broad Moscow street not two hundred

yards from the Leningrad station,

on the upper floor of an ornate and

hideous hotel built by Stalin in the

style known to Muscovites as Empire

During the Plague, the British Coun-

cil's first ever audio fair for the

teaching of the English language and

the spread of British culture was

grinding to its excruciating end. The

time was half past five, the summer

weather erratic. After fierce rain

showers all &y long, a false sunlight was

blazing in the puddles and

raising vapour from the pavements. Of the

passers-by, the younger ones

wore jeans and sneakers, but their elders

were still huddled in their

warms.

The room the Council had rented was not

expensive but neither was it

appropriate to the occasion. I have seen

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it -Not long ago, in Moscow on

quite another mission, I tiptoed up the

great empty staircase and, with

a diplomatic

. 21

passport in my pocket, stood in the

eternal dusk that shrouds old

ballrooms when they are asleep - With its

plum p brown pillars and gilded

mirrors, it was better suited to the last

hours of a sinking liner than

the launch of a great initiative. On the

ceiling, snarling Russians in

proletarian caps shook their fists at

Lenin. Their vigour contrasted

unhelpfully with the chipped green ricks

of sound cassettes along the

walls, featuring Winnie-the-Pooh and

Advanced Computer English in Three

Hours. The sackcloth soundbooths.,

locally procured and lacking many of

their

-17-

promised features, had the sadness of

deck chairs on a rainy beach. The

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exhibitors' stands, crammed under the

shadow of an overhanging gallery,

seemed as blasphemous as betting shops in

a tabernacle.

Nevertheless a fair of sorts had taken

place. People had come, as Moscow

people do, provided they have the

documents and status to satisfy the

hard-cyed boys in leather jackets at the

door. Out of politeness. Out of

curiosity. To talk to Westerners.

Because it is there. And now on the fifth

and final evening the great farewell

cocktail party of exhibitors and

invited guests was getting into its

stride. A handful of the small

nomenclatura of the Soviet cultural

bureaucracy was gathering under the

chandelier, the ladies in their beehive

hairstyles and flowered frocks

designed for slenderer frames, the

gentlemen slimmed by the shiny

French-tailored suits that signified

access to the special clothing stores.

Only their British hosts, in despondent

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