George Smiley had liked the man and now the man was dead. Suicide. But why?
An anonymous letter had alleged that Foreign Office man Samuel Fennan had been a member of the Communist Party as a student before the war.
Nothing very unusual for his generation. Smiley had made it clear that the investigation - little more than a routine security check - was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed.
Next day, Fennan was dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn't go on. Why? Smiley was puzzled ...
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