Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p A Most Wanted Man is a thriller/espionage novel by John le Carré published in September 2008 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and in October 2008 by Scribner in the United States.A young Chechen ex-prisoner arrives illegally in Germany, practically uneducated and destitute, but with a claim to a fortune held in a private bank. This novel, set in Hamburg where the author was once a British agent and Consul, is based on the contemporary themes of the international war on terror and money laundering, and the conflicting interests of different officers and agents and the laymen more or less affected.The novel provides an extended, if oblique, critique of the American policy, under President George W. Bush, of extraordinary rendition. The events and characters of the novel were inspired by the real-life story of Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany who, after being arrested in Pakistan in 2001, was detained and tortured in American military detention camps, first at Kandahar in Afghanistan and then at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, before eventually being released in 2006.. }
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- A_Most_Wanted_Man abstract "A Most Wanted Man is a thriller/espionage novel by John le Carré published in September 2008 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and in October 2008 by Scribner in the United States.A young Chechen ex-prisoner arrives illegally in Germany, practically uneducated and destitute, but with a claim to a fortune held in a private bank. This novel, set in Hamburg where the author was once a British agent and Consul, is based on the contemporary themes of the international war on terror and money laundering, and the conflicting interests of different officers and agents and the laymen more or less affected.The novel provides an extended, if oblique, critique of the American policy, under President George W. Bush, of extraordinary rendition. The events and characters of the novel were inspired by the real-life story of Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany who, after being arrested in Pakistan in 2001, was detained and tortured in American military detention camps, first at Kandahar in Afghanistan and then at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, before eventually being released in 2006.".