A Murder of Quality: A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley, 2) - Softcover

Le Carré, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143122584 ISBN 13: 9780143122586

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2012

Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. John le Carré's new novel, Agent Running in the Field, is coming October 2019.

"Fielding and Jebedee were dead, Steed-Asprey vanished. Smiley--where was he?"

John le Carré's second novel, A Murder of Quality, offers an exquisite, satirical look at an elite private school as it chronicles the early development of George Smiley.

Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs. Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband--an assistant master at Carne School--is trying to kill her. Reluctant to go to the police, Miss Brimley calls upon her old wartime colleague, George Smiley. Unfortunately, it's too late. Mrs. Rode has just been murdered. As Smiley takes up the investigation, he realizes that in life--as in espionage--nothing is quite what it appears.

About this title

Review:

"Vastly entertaining."

"Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty."

"Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty."--Observer (UK)

"Le Carre is simply the world''s greatest fictional spymaster."--Newsweek

"Vastly entertaining."--Sunday Telegraph (UK)

"Le Carre is simply the world's greatest fictional spymaster."--Newsweek

"[Le Carre] is one of our great writers of moral ambiguity, a tireless explorer of that darkly contradictory no-man's land."

--Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times

"Beautifully intelligent, satiric, and witty."--The Observer (UK)

"Vastly entertaining."--The Sunday Telegraph (UK)

Book Description:

John le Carré's second novel, A Murder of Quality, offers an exquisite, satirical look at an elite private school as it chronicles the early development of George Smiley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0143122584
• ISBN 13: 9780143122586
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176