Call for the Dead, 9780241521809
Hardcover
Smiley’s routine check unveils deadly secrets, a desperate call arises.

Call for the Dead

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  • Hardcover

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    13 September 2021

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Summary

Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel

A beautiful 60th-anniversary special edition of the novel that introduced the world to George Smiley, now with a new introduction by John le Carre.

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man’s death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan’s widow to find out what could have led him to such d…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241521809
ISBN-10:0241521807
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
Author:John le Carré
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:13 September 2021
Weight:235g
Dimensions:205mm x 140mm x 15mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Intelligent, thrilling, surprising … makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard.

Intelligent, thrilling, surprising … makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard. * Sunday Telegraph *Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense. * Observer *The greatest spy novelist of all time … astounding works of the imagination. – Jake Kerridge * Daily Telegraph *Brilliant, popular, intelligent, thrilling, suspenseful, angry, original, masterful writing. Can’t be topped. – Armando IannucciAn extraordinary writer who brought literary lustre and lived insight to the spy yarn. – Ian RankinOne of those writers who will be read a century from now. – Robert HarrisHis Smiley novels are key to understanding the mid-20th century. – Margaret AtwoodWhat Joseph Conrad started, John le Carré enshrined and made modern. That is the real achievement of his great novels and why they will endure … we should see him as our contemporary Dickens. – William Boyd * New Statesman *

About The Author

John le Carré

John le Carre 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 Carre 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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