Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SpyJohn le Carre's 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 -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.A modern masterpiece in which le Carre 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 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 18 |
Section 3 | 25 |
Section 4 | 30 |
Section 5 | 37 |
Section 6 | 42 |
Section 7 | 49 |
Section 8 | 55 |
Section 21 | 181 |
Section 22 | 193 |
Section 23 | 204 |
Section 24 | 224 |
Section 25 | 228 |
Section 26 | 232 |
Section 27 | 246 |
Section 28 | 256 |
Section 9 | 64 |
Section 10 | 70 |
Section 11 | 79 |
Section 12 | 97 |
Section 13 | 107 |
Section 14 | 118 |
Section 15 | 125 |
Section 16 | 132 |
Section 17 | 146 |
Section 18 | 158 |
Section 19 | 167 |
Section 20 | 172 |
Section 29 | 268 |
Section 30 | 277 |
Section 31 | 284 |
Section 32 | 300 |
Section 33 | 315 |
Section 34 | 318 |
Section 35 | 337 |
Section 36 | 344 |
Section 37 | 358 |
Section 38 | 362 |
Section 39 | 376 |
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