A Most Wanted Man 2

Now in Chapter 2 we meet the main character of the story. Tommy Brue. The head of an old fashioned historic bank called Brue Freres. Tommy Brue has done well and so has his bank. The bank started in Austria but moved to Hamburg. We also meet the lawyer character who represents Issa. Frau Annabel Richter. She calls Mr. Brue and and explains that her client would like to claim a Lipazzaner account. Lipazzaner accounts are given their name from "Lipazzaner horses possess the curious property of being born jet black and only turning white with age"(25). They are metaphor as Brue goes on to explain for an exotic type of account his father created near the end of the cold war. Brue then proceeds to meet with Frau Richter. He compares her voice to his daughter's and that of a choir-boy. They meet in a hotel restaurant, The Atlantic, Brue believes Frau Richter is going to black mail him with the Lipizzaners. However Frau Richter presents a account number, which correctly starts with 77, the notation for Lipizzaners, and says her client would like to make a claim. Brue deflected being defensive. He didn't want to discuss te Lipizzaners at all and wants to avoid the subject at all costs. Their meeting becomes kind of confrontational "He's not a trickster Mr.Brue" "Of course not he is your client"(37). Their meeting ends with Brue saying he will check his records. Brue does so and varifies that Colonel Grigori Karpov holds a Lipizzaner account with that number. We also leanr more of this colonel. "Russian crooks being your personal preserve"(39). Brue is reffering to his father Edward Amadeus Brue who created the accounts. We learn that the accounts are those of Russian military players during the cold war.


Le Carre, John. A Most Wanted Man. New York: Scribner 2008.