Call for the dead - John Le Carr

THE FIRST GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL

After
a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan
apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying
to blame him for the death, he begins his own investigation, meeting
Fennan's widow to find out what led him to such desperation. On the very
day Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from
the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about
this man's death than the Circus previously imagined?

Le Carr's first book, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring spy George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.

'Intelligent, thrilling, surprising . . . makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard' Sunday Telegraph

'Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense' Observer