Call for the Dead : A George Smiley Novel

from bevok

John Le Carre's deftly drawn characters and well informed books on the world of espionage should need no introduction. Yet despite watching the two BBC miniseries based on the George Smiley character I hadn't read any until I listened to this, the first book in the eight featuring George. Smiley ...

from fourbears

This is a reread. Probably read it back in the 60ies or 70ies when Iwas really crazy about spy novels. I'm rereading LeCarre's old onesthough. He's good. This one introduces the character of George Smileywho figures in the best of his spy fiction a decade later (Books likeTinker, Tailer, Soldier,...

from pgmcc

I have just finished "Call for the Dead". It is an excellent story. It is the first book written by David Cornwell under the name of John Le Carré. He would have been an intelligence officer himself at the time of writing this novel. The book introduces Mr. Smiley whom some of you will know is th...

from wdwilson3

John Le Carré's first novel introduces George Smiley in what is less a spy thriller than a mystery involving spies. While there's a good deal of action (including poor old George getting beat up twice!) there is also methodical deduction. Well written in Le Carré's erudite style with typical intr...

from Eyejaybee

This was le Carré's first published novel and also marks the debut of George Smiley. Even in this book, published in 1961, Smiley is already world weary, and tarnished, bowed down by the pressures of the world of spies and counter-espionage manoeuvres, at a time before Kim Philby's public unmaski...