Call for the Dead

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined? Le Carre's debut novel, Call for the Dead , introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.

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

Product details

• Authors: John le Carre, John le Carré, John Le Carre, John le Carré
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2018
• EAN: 9780241337080
• ISBN: 978-0-241-33708-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; George Smiley; Penguin Classics; The Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection; George Smiley; The Penguin John le Carre Hardback Collection; Ein Smiley-Roman
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Classic fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Cold wars and proxy conflicts