Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Carre, John Le

£16.34

Smiley and his people are facing a remarkable challenge: a mole – a Soviet double agent – who has burrowed his way in and up to the highest level of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of their vital operations and their best networks. The mole is one of their own kind. But which one?

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Publish Date: 07/01/2010
ISBN: 9781408400876 Tag:

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George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess ‘the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin’. Smiley, wrestling with retirement and disillusionment, is summoned to a secret meeting with a member of the Cabinet Office. Evidence has emerged that the Circus has been infiltrated at the highest level by a Russian agent. ‘Find the mole, George. Clean the stables. Do whatever is necessary.’ Reluctantly Smiley agrees, and so embarks on a dark journey into his past – a past filled with love, duplicity and betrayal. Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a star cast including Anna Chancellor, Alex Jennings, Kenneth Cranham and Bill Paterson, this epic dramatisation brilliantly depicts the complicated moral dilemmas of those who practise post-war espionage, and illuminates the murky corners of le Carré’s classic spy thriller.

3 CDs. 3 hrs.

Additional information

Weight 174 g
Dimensions 143 × 125 × 24 mm
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Cover

Hardback

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Language

English

Edition

Unabridged

Dewey

822.92 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K