Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel
by:
John le Carré (author)
"Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards." George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy—which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he concluded that the affable Samuel Fennan had nothing to hide. Why,...
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"Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards." George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy—which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he concluded that the affable Samuel Fennan had nothing to hide. Why, then, did the man from the Foreign Office shoot himself in the head only hours later? Or did he?The heart-stopping tale of intrigue that launched both novelist and spy, Call for the Dead is an essential introduction to le Carré's chillingly amoral universe.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143122579 (0143122576)
ASIN: 143122576
Publish date: October 2nd 2012
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense
Series: George Smiley (#1)
I've been meaning to read John LeCarre for decades, at least. I've heard a lot of really good things about several of the George Smiley books, including The Spy Who Came In From the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. One of the issues with my pathological completism is that I am compelled to beg...
A wonderful, Cold-War spy tale and my first foray into the work of John le Carré. I'm so impressed with his impeccable prose and can't wait to begin another of his work in the near future.
It's good enough for someone's first novel. but i have to read another novels by le Carré.first pages were a little slow, but it got better in middle of the book. worth for reading
3.5 starsSimplistic and straightforward, especially compared to [b:The Secret Pilgrim|46462|The Secret Pilgrim (George Smiley, #8)|John le Carré|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1170330461s/46462.jpg|876061], which is the only other John le Carré book I've read. It's espionage mixed with ...
In Call for the Dead, we’re introduced to the British Secret Service’s George Smiley in the inimitable, clever style of John Le Carre. The author’s Berne University and Oxford education come to the fore on the vehicle of his prose: the learned thriller.From the moment the rather anti-Bondian Smiley ...
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