An apparent suicide. A deepening mystery. A letter from a dead man.
Secret agent George Smiley is in trouble. A Foreign Office civil servant,Samuel Fennan,has killed himself,and Smiley realizes that Intelligence head Maston is going to set him up to take the blame.
Beginning his own investigation,Smiley is shocked to receive an urgent letter from the dead man,and slowly uncovers a network of deceit and betrayal. Le Carre's debut novel was also the first of his many books to feature the tenacious,unassuming and singular George Smiley.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241639214Number of pages: 176Weight: 134 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 9 mm
John le Carré
One of the greatest spy novelists of all time,John le Carré was born in 1931. His third novel,The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,secured him a worldwide reputation,which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People all featuring his most famous character,George Smiley,the quintessential Cold War operative. An antidote to Fleming's racier James Bond,Smiley is cool,thoughtful,somewhat academic and (superficially) "breathtakingly normal"with a somewhat ambivalent attitude to the Service and its efficacy. His other novels,thrillers which range widely covering variously political issues of the arms trade,modern conflict and drug-trafficking,include: A Most Wanted Man,Our Kind of Traitor,A Delicate Truth and the recently adapted The Night Manager. His only work of non-fiction,The Pigeon Tunnel,was a Number One bestseller in 2016.
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