Call for the Dead (The Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection)

Call for the Dead (The Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection)

by JohnleCarré (Author), John le Carré (Author)

Synopsis

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? Le Carre's debut novel, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 03 May 2018

ISBN 10: 0241337089
ISBN 13: 9780241337080
Book Overview: The novel that introduced the world to George Smiley, now in a gift hardback edition.

Media Reviews
Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense * Observer *
Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard * Sunday Telegraph *
Author Bio
John le Carre was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.