- Fiction, Intelligence service, George Smiley (Fictitious character), Smiley, George (Fictitious character)
George Smiley is assigned to uncover the identity of the double agent operating in the highest levels of British Intelligence.
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Grave, cool, earnest and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- John le Carré
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 369
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division, Chivers Audio Books, Bantam
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780340733950
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“The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood's at all.”
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, due to his strong disapproval of Brexit, he took out Irish citizenship, which was possible due to his having an Irish grandparent. Le Carré's third novel, *The Spy Who Came in from the Cold* (1963), became an
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