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Call For The Dead - John le Carré
Call For The Dead
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ISBN: 9780340559697 (0340559691)
Edition language: English
Series: George Smiley (#1)
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Abandoned by user
Abandoned by user rated it
3.0 Short, skillful and sparse
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...
Flicker Reads
Flicker Reads rated it
4.0 Call for the Dead
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.
payamtameh
payamtameh rated it
3.0 Call for the Dead
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
DayDreamer
DayDreamer rated it
4.0 Call for the Dead
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 ...
cmjwallace
cmjwallace rated it
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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