THE FIRST GEORGE SMILEY NOVELAftera routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennanapparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is tryingto blame him for the death, he begins his own investigation, meetingFennan's widow to find out what led him to such desperation. On the veryday Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter fromthe dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more aboutthis man's death than the Circus previously imagined? Le Carre'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