PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS : SMILEYS PEOPLE – JOHN LE CARRE

THE SEVENTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL A Soviet defector has been assassinated on English soil, and George Smiley is called back to the Circus to clear up – and cover up – the mess. But what he discovers sends him delving into the past, on a trail through Hamburg and Paris to Cold War Berlin – and a final showdown with his elusive nemesis, Karla. The concluding part of le Carre s celebrated Karla Trilogy, Smiley s People sees the last confrontation between the indefatigable spymaster and his great enemy, as their rivalry comes to a shattering end. An enormously skilled and satisfying work Newsweek We are all Smiley s people, a kind of secular god of intelligence New Yorker