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After the mole's exposure, George Smiley directs a counterattack against Karla from London, while his field agent Jerry Westerby, the honourable schoolboy, follows a money trail through Hong Kong and Southeast Asia in the last days of the Vietnam War.
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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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Tree of Smoke
A CIA operative, a missionary, and a Vietnamese double agent move through the fog of the Vietnam War, where no one's motives are what they seem.
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.
All the King's Men
A political aide rises with a populist Southern governor modelled on Huey Long, watching idealism curdle into corruption and violence.
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 Mask of Dimitrios
Charles Latimer, an English writer of detective stories visiting Istanbul, is shown the body of Dimitrios Makropoulos, a notorious criminal pulled from the Bosphorus, and becomes curious enough to trace the dead man's life across Europe.
Underworld
A panoramic Cold War novel that begins with a lost baseball and Bobby Thomson's home run and spirals through decades of American paranoia, waste, and longing.