John le carre smiley trilogy6/11/2023 ![]() The conclusion to the Karla Trilogy (preceded by Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy all three books were collected in an omnibus as The Quest for Karla in 1982), Smiley's People is the swan song of the unassuming "fat spy" George Smiley - a retired highly-placed official of the "Circus" (MI6, Britain's foreign intelligence service) - who is reluctantly taken out of mothballs by the sneering and supercilious Circus administrators (Oliver Lacon and Lauder Strickland) when a high-ranking Soviet defector is found murdered in Hampstead Heath, London. ![]() ![]() Uvula_fr_b4From Sunday, 25 November to Wednesday, 5 December, I read John le Carré's Smiley's People (NY: Bantam Books, 1979 ISBN: -6 388 pps.), which is the third book in the Karla Trilogy, following Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) and The Honourable Schoolboy (1977). ![]()
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