![]() ![]() He takes up the assignment and with the aid of a few old friends travels down a road that he finds someone has already been down but hopefully he will meet with more success. Guillam, Smiley, and Lacon hear Ricky Tarr’s story about the mole ![]() Then a vanished agent reappears in England with a tale of a mole, codenamed Gerald, who is at the heart of the Circus and Smiley is brought back from retirement to “Clean the stables, go backwards, go forwards, do whatever is necessary” to identify the traitor. I’m working my way through John le Carré’s George Smiley spy novels, which actually include a traditional detective story “A Murder of Quality”, and whilst not a classic mystery, along with a number of other thrillers, this title made the Crime Writers’ Association Top 100 books list in 1990 so I feel justified in giving it a full review on this blog.Ĭontrol, the head of the Circus (MI6), was sacked follow a botched operation in Czechoslovakia, and George Smiley, his loyal number two, was forced out at the same time. ![]()
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