- Intelligence service in fiction, Fiction in English, American Spy stories, Intelligence service
In the aftermath of the events described in *Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy*, George Smiley attempts to bring the Circus back from the brink and undo the damage caused by the traitor/mole Bill Haydon while still pursuing his "arch nemesis" Karla.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- John le Carré
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 576
- Publisher
- George Prior, Chivers Audio Books, Pan Books Ltd
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Russian, English, Spanish, German
- ISBN
- 9780553146769
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“Afterwards, in the dusty little corners where London's secret servants drink together, there was argument about where the Dolphin case history should really begin.”
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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