The Honourable Schoolboy: The Smiley Collection: The Smiley Collection
Autor John le Carréen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 feb 2020
George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history. Using the talents of journalist and occasional spy Jerry Westerby, Smiley launches a risky operation uncovering a Russian money-laundering scheme in the Far East. His aim: revenge on Karla, head of Moscow Centre and the architect of all his troubles.
In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between Smiley and his Soviet adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension.
'Energy, compassion, rich and overwhelming sweep of character and action'The Times
'A remarkable sequel ... the achievement is in the characters, major and minor ... all burned on the brain of the reader'The New York Times
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241330906
ISBN-10: 0241330904
Pagini: 688
Dimensiuni: 111 x 181 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria The Smiley Collection
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241330904
Pagini: 688
Dimensiuni: 111 x 181 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria The Smiley Collection
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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.