![]() ![]() Jerry's odyssey begins: to Hong Kong-and blackmail and murder to collapsing Cambodia and Vietnam-and drug traffickers, the CIA, and a huge and mystifying "gold seam" spilling out of Russia. "You point me and I'll march," says Jerry. ![]() His choice of weapons: the Honourable Gerald (Jerry) Westerby, an Old Asia Hand, veteran of several marriages (and wars), unquestioning in his readiness to answer Smiley's summons. ![]() When he finds his opening, Smiley moves without hesitation. Salvaging what he can of the Service's ravaged network of spies, summoning back a few trustworthy old colleagues, working them - and himself-around the clock, he searches for a whisper, a hint, a clue that will lead him back to his opposite number: Karla, the Soviet officer in Moscow Centre who masterminded the infamous treachery. Now, in The Honourable Schoolboy, George Smiley - who has assumed the unenviable job of restoring the health, and reputation, of his demoralized organisation - goes over to the attack. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carre's last tremendous success-ended with the devastating unmasking of a double agent at the heart of the British Secret Service (known as the Circus to le Carre's millions of readers round the world). ![]()
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