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Smiley's People
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • Published: 02/01/2020

  • ISBN: 9780241337172

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 197mm x 31mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 397g

  • RRP: £14.99

Smiley's People

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The concluding part of John le Carré's celebrated Karla Trilogy, Smiley's People sees the last confrontation between the indefatigable spymaster George Smiley and his great enemy, as their rivalry comes to a shattering end.

A Soviet defector has been assassinated on English soil, and George Smiley is called back to the Circus to clear up - and cover up - the mess. But what he discovers sends him delving into the past, on a trail through Hamburg and Paris to Cold War Berlin - and a final showdown with his elusive nemesis, Karla.

'An enormously skilled and satisfying work' Newsweek

'We are all Smiley's people, a kind of secular god of intelligence' New Yorker

THE SEVENTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • Published: 02/01/2020

  • ISBN: 9780241337172

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 197mm x 31mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 397g

  • RRP: £14.99


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About the Author

John le Carré

John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.

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