...Smiley,his damp hand cupped round the end of his cigarette,watching and hating,triumphed that he knew his enemy.
Dead men receive no calls. Dead men write no letters.
After a routine security check by George Smiley,civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death,he begins his own investigation,meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation.
But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined
Call for the Dead,John le Carre's first novel,introduces one of literature's greatest fictional spies,the tenacious,retiring,sharp-witted George Smiley.
'Intelligent,thrilling,surprising...makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard'The Sunday Telegraph
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141198286Number of pages: 160Weight: 123 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 8 mm
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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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