Finished: Call For the Dead (le Carre) and Six Years (Coben). I'm off on vacation and reading books when I can. I always enjoy Harlen Coben books, so I saved his latest for the airplane. It didn't disappoint. :-) A fast-paced tale about a man, Jake, who gives up the love of his life when she marries another man and asks him never to contact her again. Six years later Jake sees the obituary for his old flame's husband and goes to seek her out, only to find out that the widow is someone completely different...his old love was never really married to the man and is nowhere to be found. Mystery and intrigue ensues. :-)

Then, sitting by the ocean breezes, I read le Carre's first book about British spy, George Smiley. Smiley is introduced, as well as Peter Guillam, his co-worker, friend, and eventual betrayer years later in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. In Call For the Dead, a man turns up dead who George has just interviewed as a possible betrayer. He is classified as a suicide, but nothing is as it seems, especially when George himself is attacked and left for dead. Again, mystery and intrigue ensues. A nice book for the beginning of a good series!

And, two good travel reading books!