description: This is John le Carre's second book in the 'Karla' trilogy, featuring British master-spy George Smiley, the follow-up to his Edgar Award-winning espionage classic, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. In the wake of a demoralizing infiltration by a Soviet double agent, George Smiley has been made ringmaster of the Circus, aka the British Secret Service. Determined to restore his organization's health and reputation and bent on revenge, Smiley goes on the offensive. Salvaging what he can of the Service's ravaged network of spies, he works them around the clock in search of a whisper of a clue that will lead him back to his opposite Karla, the officer who masterminded the infamous treachery. Smiley thrusts his own handpicked operative into Jerry Westerby, the 'Honourable Schoolboy,' is dispatched to the Far East. A burial ground of British, French, and American colonial cultures, the region is a fabled testing ground of patriotic allegiances. A new showdown is about to beg
language: English
title: The Honourable Schoolboy: Library Edition
titlecomplete: The Honourable Schoolboy: Library Edition
characters: Jerry Westerby, Roddy Martindale, Sam Collins, Ann Smiley, Peter Guillam, Charlie Marshall, Tiny Ricardo, Molly Meakin, Nelson Ko, Drake Ko, George Smiley, Connie Sachs, Lizzie Worthington
genres: British Literature, Spy Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Novels, Thriller, Espionage, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 22002
places: Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Laos, Hong Kong, London, England, Vietnam, Vientiane, Thailand
series: The Karla Trilogy, George Smiley
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: CWA Gold Dagger
publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.