Read Series: George Smiley
by Author John Le Carré
A Murder of Quality (2002)
Carne School, with its cloisters and woodworm and a line in the Doomsday Book, is one of the Great Schools, where the rich send their sons to be instructed. And it is from Carne that Miss Ailsa Brimley, editor of the small Christian Voice newspaper, receives a letter for the paper’s problem page....
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (2001)
”What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists, and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrong...
The Looking Glass War (2002)
I cannot recall the exact age I was when I read this minimalist piece perfectly executed by the talented le Carré, but whatever is was—and around 15 years old sounds about right—it served as effective an eye-opener to reality as a set of clamps fixed upon what were previously orbs dreaming away b...
The Secret Pilgrim (1991)
Another classic espionage novel written in beautiful English. The narrator turns out to be Ned, the sympathetic, melancholy, Dutch-English head of the Russia House in the novel of the same name. And guess who appears next: dear old George Smiley, who gets an encore. I thought we had seen the last...
Call for the Dead (2002)
Τηλεφώνημα για το νεκρόΤο 1984 κυκλοφόρησε από τις εκδόσεις Bell ένας τόμος με τον τίτλο "Ντετέκτιβ Σμάιλυ", που περιέχει τα δυο πρώτα μικρά μυθιστορήματα του Τζον Λε Καρέ, το "Τηλεφώνημα για το νεκρό" και το "Έγκλημα ποιότητας", τα οποία πλέον κυκλοφορούν σε ξεχωριστά βιβλία από τις εκδόσεις Κασ...