num_pages: 384
description: A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart.It is now beyond a doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed.
language: English
title: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
titlecomplete: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
characters: Inspector Mendel, Bill Haydon, Ricki Tarr, Toby Esterhase, Peter Guillam, Percy Alleline, George Smiley, Bill Roach, Connie Sachs, Roy Bland, Ann Smiley, Oliver Lacon, Aleksey Polyakov, Roddy Martindale, Jim Prideaux
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Spy Thriller, Novels, Espionage, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 91673
places: London, England
series: The Karla Trilogy, George Smiley
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: CWA Silver Dagger
publisher: Sceptre