Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel

by John le Carré Narrated by Michael Jayston

Overview

Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards.

George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy -- which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he concluded that the affable Samuel Fennan had nothing to hide. Why, then, did the man from the Foreign Office shoot himself in the head only hours later? Or did he?

The heart-stopping tale of intrigue that launched both novelist and spy, Call for the Dead is an essential introduction to le Carré's chillingly amoral universe.

Editorial Reviews

Sunday Telegraph (UK)

Thrilling…makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard.”—Sunday Telegraph

Observer (UK)

"Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense...excellent writing."—The Observer

The New York Times Book Review

A subtle and acute story of counterespionage marked by restraint, indirection, and intelligence.”—The New York Times Book Review

Newsweek

"Le Carré is simply the world's greatest fictional spymaster."

Tim Rutten

Le Carré is one of our great writers of moral ambiguity, a tireless explorer of that darkly contradictory no-man’s land.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172045615
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	09/27/2012
Series:	Penguin Audio Classics , #1
Edition description:	Unabridged

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