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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John le Carré

Book 5 of George Smiley

382 pages

About this book

George Smiley, a troubled man of infinite compassion, enters a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplighters, scalphunters and pavement artists, where men are turned, burned or bought for stock. Smiley's mission is to catch a Moscow mole burrowed 30 years into the Circus itself.

Themes
Dark & BroodingMysteriousSlow BurnThought-ProvokingBetrayal within trusted circlesThe cost of moral compromiseNostalgia for a lost eraThe banality of espionage
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