DescriptionJohn le Carré's world-famous hero, undercover agent George Smiley, emerges from retirement to solve a baffling, bloody crime. He becomes entangled with a woman as dangerous as she is charming, and a tottering, brilliant man haunted by a perverse secret of his past. Smiley pursues the murderer amid the hollow pomp and ceremony of the Establishment, where a man's fate is decided over tea, and a sentence of death can be passed out with biscuits and sherry.
DescriptionThe preceding novel in the George Smiley series ( Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ) ended with the devastating unmasking of a double agent at the heart of the British Secret Service. Now, in The Honourable Schoolboy, George Smiley, who has assumed the unenviable job of restoring the health and reputation of his demoralized organization, goes on the offensive. Salvaging what he can of the Service's ravaged network of spies, summoning back a few trustworthy old colleagues, working them, and himself, around the clock, he searches for a whisper, a hint, a clue that will lead him back to his opposite number: Karla, the Soviet officer in Moscow Center who masterminded the infamous treachery.
DescriptionIn John LeCarré's first novel, we meet the world's most famous undercover operative, George Smiley. The cast of characters includes a bright, twisted former hero of the German underground, a once beautiful woman with a terrifying secret, a high ranking pompous fool of a bureaucrat, and a suspect British civil servant. The protagonist, George Smiley, is bitter and weary - he has seen too much and done too much. Yet he cannot refuse one last desperate call for his services. The author, called by Time magazine, "the premier spy novelist of his time and perhaps all time, " employs techniques of espionage as only he can, together with sustained action and a grandly conceived and intricately drawn plot.
DescriptionThis satisfying successor to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy takes the listener on a European tour to meet the men and women who are Smiley's People . Spy chief George Smiley intends to retire. However, his brain does not. So when the Circus asks him to go just one more round, it's no surprise that he accepts. After many years of long-range battle, Smiley's mission will finally bring him close to Karla, his mortal enemy (and opposite) inside the Soviet Union.
DescriptionFor years, 5 brilliant, complicated men, proven in action, have been working closely together at the highest levels of British Intelligence. They have depended on each other despite abrasive clashes of temperament, painful differences of sensibility, and the central imperative of their profession: to trust no one. Now it has become evident that among these men stands a double agent - a mole - woven deep in its fabric, perhaps decades ago, by Moscow Centre. It is George Smiley, one of the 5 and perhaps the most brilliant, who is chosen to dig out the mole and destroy him. And so Smiley embarks on his blind night walk, retracing path after path into his own past - its aliases, covers, sleights of hand - burrowing into the dust of unresolved episodes.
