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Smiley's People

by John Le Carré

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395 pages2006SceptreISBN 9780340937631
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About this book

A very junior agent answers Vladimir’s call, but it could have been the Chief of the Circus himself. No one at the British Secret Service considers the old spy to be anything except a senile has-been who can’t give up the game—until he’s shot in the face at point-blank range. Although George Smiley (code name: Max) is officially retired, he’s summoned to identify the body now bearing Moscow Centre’s bloody imprimatur. As he works to unearth his friend’s fatal secrets, Smiley heads inexorably toward one final reckoning with Karla—his “dark grail.” In Smiley’s People, master storyteller John le Carré brings his acclaimed Karla trilogy to its unforgettable, spellbinding conclusion.

Publication Details

Publisher
Sceptre
Published
2006
Pages
395
ISBN
9780340937631
Language
en

About John Le Carré

David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, due to his strong disapproval of Brexit, he took out Irish citizenship, which was possible due to his having an Irish grandparent. Le Carré's third novel, *The Spy Who Came in from the Cold* (1963), became an international best-seller, was adapted as an award-winning film, and remains one of his best-known works. This success allowed him to leave MI6 to become a full-time author.[4] His novels which have been adapted for film or television include *The Looking Glass War* (1965), *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* (1974, 2011), *Smiley's People* (1979), *The Little Drummer Girl* (1983), *The Night Manager* (1993), *The Tailor of Panama* (1996), *The Constant Gardener* (2001), *A Most Wanted Man* (2008) and *Our Kind of Traitor* (2010). Philip Roth said that *A Perfect Spy* (1986) was "the best English novel since the war".

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