Absolute Friends

The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947 in a newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West.

The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties and again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage. When they meet once more, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies, they become involved in clandestine activities - with lethal results.

Absolute Friends is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our time

Prietenii titlului sunt Ted Mundy, fiul unui soldat britanic nascut in 1947 intr-un nou Pakistan independent, si Sasha, fiul refugiat al unui pastor luteran din Germania de Est si sotia sa care au cautat sanctuar in Occident. Cei doi barbati se intalnesc mai intai in calitate de studenti in Berlinul de Vest distrus de revolte de la sfarsitul anilor saizeci si din nou in ochelarul murdar al spionajului Razboiului Rece.