Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Smiley, pushed out of the Circus after a botched operation in Czechoslovakia, is quietly brought back to investigate the thing he was dismissed for suspecting: a Soviet mole at the top of British intelligence. He works through old files and colleagues' memories, with four suspects and no authority to question any of them. Espionage as sad chess.
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- responds to ↑ The Thirty-Nine Steps
- influenced by ↑ The Quiet American
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