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George Smiley is assigned to uncover the identitiy of the double agent operating in the highest levels of British Intelligence.

In London at dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people -- "the no-men of no-man's land" -- into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland as he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy,...

On its publication In 1964, John le Carre's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold forever changed the landscape of spy fiction. Le Carre combined the inside knowledge of his years in British intelligence with the skills of the best novelists to produce a story as taut as it is twisting, unlike any previously experienced, which transports us back to the shadowy years in the early 1960s when the Berlin Wall went up and the Cold War came to life. When the...

George Smiley is puzzled by the case of a Foreign Office man found dead, an apparent suicide, the day after the man was cleared in an investigation.

In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension.
As the fall of Saigon looms, master spy George Smiley must outmaneuver his Soviet counterpart on a battlefield that neither can afford to lose.
 
The mole has been eliminated, but the damage wrought has brought the British Secret Service to...

A British spy defects to East Germany as a ruse to feed false information to the government.

"Peter Guillam, leal colega y discípulo de George Smiley en los servicios secretos británicos -conocidos como El Circo-, disfruta de su jubilación en la finca familiar de la costa meridional de Bretaña, cuando una carta de su antigua organización lo insta a regresar a Londres. ¿El motivo? Su pasado en la Guerra Fría lo reclama. Unas operaciones de inteligencia que habían sido el orgullo del Londres secreto y habían implicado a personajes...

A call from the dead: Pulled back from overseas duty during World War II, Smiley was redirected to face the threats of the Cold War. He had been asked to interview Samuel Fennan of the Foreign Office after an anonymous letter accused Fennan of Communist Party membership. Smiley's report cleared him of the allegations, so he was stunned to learn that Fennan had died the day after the interview, leaving a suicide note that claimed his career had been...