Call for the Dead (Rediscovery Series)

Le Carre, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0940595036 ISBN 13: 9780940595033

Publisher: Hill & Co Pub, 1987

British undercover agent George Smiley accepts one final mission to reveal an insidious plot which may involve a suspect civil servant and a one-time hero of the German underground

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.