num_pages: 144
description: John le Carré classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service Agent George Smiley, who is introduced in this, his first novel -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. George smiley had liked Samuel Fennan, and now Fennan was dead from an apparent suicide. But why? Fennan, a Foreign Office man, had been under investigation for alleged Communist Party activities, but 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. The very next day, Fennan was found dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn't go on. Smiley was puzzled...
language: English
title: Call for the Dead
titlecomplete: Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
characters: Adam Scarr, Ann Smiley, Inspector Mendel, George Smiley, Elsa Fennan, Hans-Dieter Mundt, Samuel Fennan, Dieter Frey, Peter Guillam
genres: Audiobook, Thriller, Spy Thriller, Espionage, Crime, Suspense, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 35974
places: England
series: George Smiley
publisher: Scribner