A Most Wanted Man is a thriller/espionage novel by John le Carré published in October 2008 by Scribner in the United States and Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom.[1]
A young Chechian ex-prisoner arrives illegally in Hamburg, 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. Events and characters in the novel are fictionalized and composite versions of the story of Murat Kurnaz, who was a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany when he was arrested in Pakistan in 2001; he was detained and tortured, at Kandahar internment facility, and then at Guantanamo Bay, before being released in 2006.
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A nine-minute short film detailing the themes of the book was released on 22 July 2008, produced by Simon Channing-Williams, producer of the film version of Le Carré's 19th novel, The Constant Gardener.[2]
In June, 2011, a feature film based on the book was announced in Germany, with Anton Corbijn as director. Australian screenwriter Andrew Bovell was to adapt the novel for the screen, according to the first publicity. The movie has been granted US$1.3 million (€900,000) in production subsidies from the city's regional film board, the FFHSH (Filmfoerderung ("film promotion") Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein[3]), and the city will be the primary production location.[4] Malte Grunert's recently launched Hamburg- and Berlin-based Amusement Park Films is producing the film.[3]
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