Overview
""Not a page of this book is without intelligence and grace."" --The New York Times The mole has been purged from the Circus, and George Smiley, newly-made chief of the agency, has both rebuilding and revenge in his sights. To fully eradicate the threat, Smiley must trace back the treachery to its very roots. When his investigation leads him to Hong Kong--and what appears to be a dead end--Smiley enlists Jerry Westerby, an international sports journalist and ""occasional"" Circus asset. In the Far East, Westerby will have to untangle a web of corruption spread across a region with a reputation for testing loyalties and allegiances. The Honourable Schoolboy, sequel to the best-selling Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, continues Smiley's hunt for the Soviet spymaster Karla. With a richly drawn plot and characters that are destined to be ""burned on the brain of the reader"" (The New York Times), the sixth George Smiley novel serves as both thriller and gripping examination of the costs of espionage.
Full Product Details
Author: John Le Carré ,
Simon Vance
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Imprint: Dreamscape Media
ISBN: 9798874813499
Publication Date: 09 July 2024
Audience:
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"All the good things are there: the Balkan complexities of plot; the Dickensian profusion of idiosyncratic characters; and above all, le Carr�'s glistening social observation."""
Author Information
John le Carré, the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (1931-2020), was an English author of espionage novels. Eight of his novels made the #1 spot on the New York Times bestsellers list between 1983 and 2017. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, his third book, secured him a worldwide reputation as one of the greatest spy novelists in history. Numerous major motion pictures have been made from his novels, as well as several television series. After attending the universities at Berne and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service, serving briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. Being a member of MI6 when he wrote his first novel, Call for the Dead in 1961 in Hamburg, it necessitated the use of a nom de plume, by which he continued to be known. His writing earned him several honorary doctorate degrees and the Somerset Maugham Award, the Goethe Medal, and the Olof Palme Prize. Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over fifty Earphones Awards and thirteen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.
