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Each of Smileys old friends are given a code name, Tinker, Tailor Soldier, Sailor... The message from beyond the Iron curtain will contain just one of these words... the code name of the spy..!
The book was also made into a TV series, starring Alec Guiness... doesn't follow the ... Read review
This dramatisation of John Le Carre's novel proved a landmark in British Television. It ... more
received supreme critical acclaim for the screenplay by Arthur Hopcraft, the star Alec Guiness and the camerawork of Tony Pierce-Roberts.In Alec Guiness's first major TV role he plays George Smiley, a retired agent who is secretly brought into 'the Circus' (the code name for British Secret Intelligence Service) to root out a top-level mole. Gradually piecing together the story, the weary but determined Smiley trawls through the murky waters of Cold War espionage and his own past.
Who can spy on the spies? Some say George Smiley is in innocent retirement. Others say he ... more
was sacked after a Czech scandal. But all agree that nobody ever leaves the "Circus" without some unfinished business. Brought out of retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee the shy and retiring master of espionage moves forwards to investigate and finds himself going backwards over very old ground...
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Smiley and his people are facing a remarkable challenge: a mole - a soviet double agent - ... more
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?
Advantages: Most gripping of Le Carres books Disadvantages: Everyone knows who did it!
Put on your rainmack, hat and grab a brolly... the best place to read this is outside on a dark rainy night in London... Though it's been written so well that you can actually picture yourself there even though you may be in bed! It took me a chapter or two to really get into the story, but once your in, your hooked... A best of the best espionage book.
Just make sure you don't tell anyone you're reading it, otherwise they may tell ... ...** Brief Summary of the story
George Smiley has been retired for about a year when he finds a friend from the circus, his old outfit in British Intelligence, sitting in his living room. He is taken to the home of an high ranking advisor to the Prime Minister on intelligence matters where he hears evidence that one of the men in the senior ranks of British Intelligence is a Russian spy. Smiley is asked to find him, without official access to ... more
Put on your rainmack, hat and grab a brolly... the best place to read this is outside on a dark rainy night in London... Though it's been written so well that you can actually picture yourself there even though you may be in bed! It took me a chapter or two to really get into the story, but once your in, your hooked... A best of the best espionage book.
Just make sure you don't tell anyone you're reading it, otherwise they may tell you who the spy is!!
** Brief Summary of the story George Smiley has been retired for about a year when he finds a friend from the circus, his old outfit in British Intelligence, sitting in his living room. He is taken to the home of an high ranking advisor to the Prime Minister on intelligence matters where he hears evidence that one of the men in the senior ranks of British Intelligence is a Russian spy. Smiley is asked to find him, without official access to any of the files in the Circus or letting on that anyone is under suspicion. With only a few old friends, his own powers of deduction, and secrecy as weapons, Smiley has to unearth the friend turned spy...
Each of Smileys old friends are given a code name, Tinker, Tailor Soldier, Sailor... The message from beyond the Iron curtain will contain just one of these words... the code name of the spy..!
The book was also made into a TV series, starring Alec Guiness... doesn't follow the book exactly, but worth a look after you've finished reading..
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? "His people are full-bodied, believable individuals, the minor characters as vivid as the main cast ...a stunning story." - "The Wall Street Journal" See all Product Description
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