Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel

The first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead...
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Author: John Le Carré
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Language: English
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Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel by Le Carré, John

Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel

€24,18

Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel

€24,18
Author: John Le Carré
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead is also the debut of John le Carré's masterful creation George Smiley.

"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.



Author: John Le Carré
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/02/2012
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780143122579
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a con man, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on December 12, 2020.

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