Call for the Dead Paperback by John le Carré

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Canada (2010-07-27)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 312 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780143171393
• Item Weight: 308.45 grams
• Dimensions: 8.21 x 5.23 x 0.79 cm

TWO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERS IN ONE VOLUME

MEET THE CLEVEREST AND MOST SELF-EFFACING MAN IN SECURITY

A Murder of Quality

There has been a murder at one of England's leading public schools—a murder forecast by the victim. As a favour to an old friend, George Smiley pays a visit to Carne School to listen, to ask, and to uncover, layer by layer, the complex network of skeletons and hatreds that comprise that fine English institution.

 

Call for the Dead

Samuel Fennan, a Foreign Office man, was under investigation for Communist activities, until Smiley dismissed the allegations. When Fennan is found dead the day after he’s been cleared, with a note by his body saying he can't go on with his career in ruins, Smiley is puzzled …

A deeper investigation uncovers a spy ring and Smiley is led into a lethal duel of wits with the best of his war-time pupils.

About the Author

JOHN LE CARRÉ was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the University of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence, in MI5 and MI6. He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley’s People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on December 12, 2020.