Call for the Dead
- Author John le Carré
- Narrator Simon Russell Beale
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 28 November 2024
- Run Time 4 hours and 50 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Crime and mystery fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, History, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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THE FIRST GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL
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 death, he begins his own investigation, meeting Fennan's widow to find out what led him to such desperation. On the very day Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined?
Le Carré's first book, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring spy George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.
'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' Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph
©le Carré Productions 1961 (P)Penguin Audio 2024
Critics Review
Intelligent, thrilling, surprising … makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard.
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