The Honourable Schoolboy, (Paperback)

from br77rino

This was a huge book by Le Carre, who up to now has been writing fairly short spy novels, like The Looking Glass War and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Hong Kong is the center of the action, and the agent known as the Honourable Schoolboy, who had a cameo in the prior novel Tinker, Tailor, is...

from sarahlh

Part spy thriller, part political potboiler, part romantic tragedy, the second part of the Karla trilogy does not fail to deliver. Smiley is just as clever and unassumingly devious as before and his pawn, Westerby, is a classic le Carre creation who is sent into the heart of Hong Kong to further ...

from uvula_fr_b4

The second book in the Karla Trilogy (which includes Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy [1974] and Smiley's People [1979]; all three books were collected in omnibus form as The Quest for Karla in 1982) and the sixth novel featuring John Le Carré's "fat spy" George Smiley, The Honourable Schoolboy is a ...

from kraaivrouw

It used to be that this was my favorite of the George Smiley books. I liked the reporter angle, the exotic Hong Kong setting, the intricacies of running agents, the tragedy waiting to happen throughout. This time I enjoyed it, but less so than the other two books. In some ways I think this is le ...

from JoePhelan

I am very fond of The Honourable Schoolboy, and I admire Le Carré's literary ambitions. It's a great middle book in the Quest for Karla story. But for some reason (perhaps those literary ambitions?) it's a slow-moving (and long!) book that requires some work to get through. It's rewarding and wor...