Book Description
John le Carré's classic novels deftly
navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of
international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and
have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent
George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.
In this classic masterwork, le
Carré expands upon his extraordinary vision of a secret world as
George Smiley goes on the attack.
In the wake of a demoralizing
infiltration by a Soviet double agent, Smiley has been made
ringmaster of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service).
Determined to restore the organization's health and reputation,
and bent on revenge, Smiley thrusts his own handpicked operative
into action. Jerry Westerby,
"The Honourable
Schoolboy," is dispatched to the Far East. A burial ground of
French, British, and American colonial cultures, the region is a
fabled testing ground of patriotic allegiances?and a new showdown
is about to begin.
