The concluding part of John le Carré's celebrated Karla Trilogy,Smiley's People sees the last confrontation between the indefatigable spymaster GeorgeSmiley and hisgreat enemy,as their rivalry comes to a shatteringend.A Soviet defector has been assassinatedon English soil,and George Smiley is called back to the Circus to clearup - and cover up - the mess. But what he discovers sends him delvinginto the past,on a trail through Hamburg and Paris to Cold War Berlin -and a final showdown with his elusive nemesis,Karla.'An enormously skilled and satisfying work'Newsweek'We are all Smiley's people,a kind of secular god of intelligence'New YorkerTHE SEVENTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241322529Number of pages: 432Weight: 315 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 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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