num_pages: 381
description: A modern classic in which John le Carr 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
publisher: Penguin Books