Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
by:
John le Carré (author)
Featuring George Smiley, this New York Times bestseller is the first installment in John le Carré’s acclaimed Karla Trilogy. From the author of A Delicate Truth and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The man he knew as "Control" is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus....
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Featuring George Smiley, this New York Times bestseller is the first installment in John le Carré’s acclaimed Karla Trilogy. From the author of A Delicate Truth and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The man he knew as "Control" is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement—especially when a pretty, w
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Format: Kindle Edition
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 422
Edition language: English
Series: George Smiley (#5)
I hadn’t read any spy genre novels before, but this one came highly recommended and seems to be a classic of the genre. We’ll call it 4 stars for “this seems like a good book, but it isn’t my genre so don’t take my star rating too seriously.”George Smiley is an unsexy but astute official in Britain’...
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Can someone tell me why this book is considered to be a masterpiece of spy fiction??? I mean the reader gets "DROPPED" in the middle of nowhere called a "PLOT", with a protagonist who is too lazy or too laid back to care, along with me the reader, about whats going on. And by the end, when the mole ...
This only gets two stars based on a couple of different things. I took stars away because too much of this book pretty much bored me to tears. It was so slow in the parts where George Smiley is essentially acting as a detective. Is there a mole in the British Centre intelligence office or not? A...