Call for the Dead (Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage) - Softcover

Buch 1 von 9: George Smiley

Le Carré, John

 
9780241639214: Call for the Dead (Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241639212 ISBN 13: 9780241639214
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2023

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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph


An apparent suicide. A deepening mystery. A letter from a dead man...

Secret agent George Smiley is in trouble. A Foreign Office civil servant, Samuel Fennan, has killed himself, and Smiley realizes that Intelligence head Maston is going to set him up to take the blame. Beginning his own investigation, Smiley is shocked to receive an urgent letter from the dead man, and slowly uncovers a network of deceit and betrayal. Le Carré's debut novel was also the first of his many books to feature the tenacious, unassuming and singular George Smiley.

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John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the University of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5 & 6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020. His posthumous novel, Silverview, was published in 2021.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241639212
ISBN 13 
9780241639214
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Anzahl der Seiten
176
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