Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
by:
John le Carré (author)
John le Carré'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. A modern masterpiece,...
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John le Carré'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. A modern masterpiece, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet equivalent, as he's assigned to identify and destroy the double agent -- a mole -- who has burrowed his way into the top echelons of British Intelligence Headquarters.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671042738 (0671042734)
Publish date: February 1st 2000
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 448
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...
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