Call for the Dead: The Smiley Collection: The Smiley Collection
Autor John le Carréen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 feb 2020
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 death, he begins his own investigation, meeting Fennan's widow to find out what led him to such desperation. On the very day 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 Carré's first book,Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring spy George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.
'Intelligent, thrilling, surprising . . . makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard'Sunday Telegraph
'Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense'Observer
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241330876
ISBN-10: 0241330874
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 111 x 181 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria The Smiley Collection
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241330874
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 111 x 181 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria The Smiley Collection
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
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
(MI5&6).
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
trilogyTinker
Tailor
Soldier
Spy,The
Honourable
SchoolboyandSmiley'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
12
December
2020.
Recenzii
What
Joseph
Conrad
started,
John
le
Carré
enshrined
and
made
modern.
That
is
the
real
achievement
of
his
great
novels
and
why
they
will
endure
...
we
should
see
him
as
our
contemporary
Dickens.
Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense.
The greatest spy novelist of all time ... astounding works of the imagination.
Brilliant, popular, intelligent, thrilling, suspenseful, angry, original, masterful writing. Can't be topped.
An extraordinary writer who brought literary lustre and lived insight to the spy yarn.
One of those writers who will be read a century from now.
His Smiley novels are key to understanding the mid-20th century.
Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense.
The greatest spy novelist of all time ... astounding works of the imagination.
Brilliant, popular, intelligent, thrilling, suspenseful, angry, original, masterful writing. Can't be topped.
An extraordinary writer who brought literary lustre and lived insight to the spy yarn.
One of those writers who will be read a century from now.
His Smiley novels are key to understanding the mid-20th century.
Descriere
THE FIRST GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL
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 death, he begins his own investigation, meeting Fennan's widow to find out what led him to such desperation. On the very day 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 Carré's first book, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring spy George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.
'Intelligent, thrilling, surprising . . . makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard' Sunday Telegraph
'Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense' Observer