Call for the Dead - Softcover

Le Carre, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743431677 ISBN 13: 9780743431675

Publisher: Scribner, 2002

Synopsis

John le Carré classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service Agent George Smiley, who is introduced in this, his first novel -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.

George smiley had liked Samuel Fennan, and now Fennan was dead from an apparent suicide. But why? Fennan, a Foreign Office man, had been under investigation for alleged Communist Party activities, but Smiley had made it clear that the investigation -- little more than a routine security check -- was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed. The very next day, Fennan was found dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn't go on. Smiley was puzzled...

About this title

Review:

'Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense ... excellent writing.' (The Observer)

'Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard.' (The Sunday Telegraph)

'A subtle and acute story of counterespionage marked by restraint, indirection, and intelligence.' (The New York Times Book Review)

'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".' (Audible.com)

Book Description:

Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carré's first novel, which introduced his most famous character, George Smiley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743431677
• ISBN 13: 9780743431675
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1