Smiley's People

john le carré

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.Rounding off his astonishing vision of a clandestine world, master storyteller le Carre perfects his art in Smiley's People. In London at dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people -- the no-men of no-man's land -- into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland as he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla.

Genres fictionespionagethrillermysteryspy thrillersuspensemystery thrillercrimenovelsaudiobook

397 pages, Paperback

First published January 2,1979

Series

George Smiley

Literary awards

los angeles times book prize,

Places

berlin,

This edition

Format: 397 pages, Paperback
Published: November 26, 2002 by Scribner
ISBN: 9780743455800
ASIN: 0743455800
Language: English

Characters More characters

Peter Guillam

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Toby Esterhase

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Connie Sachs

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Oliver Lacon

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George Smiley

George Smiley is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Smiley is an intelligence officer working for MI6 (often referred to as "the Circus" in the novels and films), the British overseas intelligence agency. He is a central character in the nove...

About the author

john le carré

John le Carré, the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England), was an English author of espionage novels. Le Carré had resided in St Buryan, Cornwall, Great Britain, for more than 40 years, where he owned a mile of cliff close to Land's End.