Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley, 1)
The first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead is also the debut of John le Carré's masterful creation George Smiley.
"Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards."
"Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards."
George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy—which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he concluded that the affable Samuel Fennan had nothing to hide. Why, then, did the man from the Foreign Office shoot himself in the head only hours later? Or did he?
The heart-stopping tale of intrigue that launched both novelist and spy, Call for the Dead is an essential introduction to le Carré's chillingly amoral universe.
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Diving into the spy master’s work, this was a quick read; I was confused a bit by the third person narration and where I thought the narrator was bringing me, so in a way it was successfully stumping me from guessing “who dunnit.”
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