A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. Series: The Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection THE SIXTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL Read more Look Inside Details all burned on the brain of the reader' The New York Times the achievement is in the characters, major and minor. 'Energy, compassion, rich and overwhelming sweep of character and action' The Times His aim: revenge on Karla, head of Moscow Centre and the architect of all his troubles. Using the talents of journalist and occasional spy Jerry Westerby, Smiley launches a risky operation uncovering a Russian money-laundering scheme in the Far East. George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history. In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension.
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