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Smiley's final confrontation with his Soviet nemesis Karla becomes a chess match where the winner may lose more than the loser.
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From Russia, with Love
SMERSH lays a trap for Bond with a beautiful Soviet cipher clerk and a coveted decoding machine, and the chase runs from Istanbul to Paris aboard the Orient Express.
A Perfect Spy
When Magnus Pym, a senior British intelligence officer, disappears after his father's funeral, the story of his life, from his con-man father to his double career, emerges, in le Carré's most autobiographical novel.
The Secrets We Kept
In 1956 the CIA recruits Irina, a young Russian-American typist, to work alongside Sally, an experienced agent, on a plan to smuggle Boris Pasternak's banned Doctor Zhivago into the Soviet Union.
The Night Manager
A former soldier working as night manager of a Zurich hotel is recruited by British intelligence to work his way into the inner circle of a charming arms dealer.
Gorky Park
Three bodies are found frozen under the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park, their faces and fingertips cut away, and Arkady Renko, chief homicide investigator of the Moscow militia, suspects the case is one the KGB would rather he dropped.
Slow Horses
Slough House is where MI5 sends the agents whose careers it has ended, to push paper under the slovenly Jackson Lamb, and River Cartwright, exiled there after a botched exercise, sees a chance at redemption when a young man is kidnapped and threatened with a beheading on the internet.
The Hunt for Red October
Soviet captain Marko Ramius takes Red October, a nuclear submarine with an almost silent drive, out into the Atlantic with the whole Soviet fleet chasing him, and CIA analyst Jack Ryan has to convince Washington that Ramius means to defect.
Our Man in Havana
A hapless British vacuum-cleaner salesman in Havana is recruited by MI6 and, with nothing to report, invents a network of agents, with darkly comic and then dangerous consequences.
The Quiller Memorandum
Quiller, a British agent who works alone, takes over the hunt for a neo-Nazi organisation in Berlin after the last man on the job is shot.
Advise and Consent
The President nominates a controversial man for Secretary of State, and the Senate's confirmation fight drags the secrets of everyone involved into the open.
Northern Spy
Tessa, a BBC producer in Belfast on maternity leave, watches the news of an IRA robbery and sees her sister Marian on screen, pulling on a balaclava.
The Quiet American
A jaded British journalist in 1950s Vietnam befriends an idealistic American aid worker, not realising the American's quiet mission will cost innocent lives.