Three complete works by a popular author of spy and espionage novels include Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People.
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This three-in-one set of le Carré thrillers about late cold war spycraft has wit, atmosphere, and intelligence to die for. In le Carré's most autobiographical novel, A Perfect Spy, Rick Pym, a con artist Dickens might have invented (except that he's based on le Carré's dad) raises his son, Magnus, to be the perfect gentleman for the spook trade. Magnus writes to explain himself to his son, Tom; le Carré wrote the book to explain his own scalawag dad to himself, and burst into tears when he finished the novel.
In The Russia House, set in 1987, a Soviet dissident physicist drops a secret manuscript to Barley Blair, a boozy loser of a British book publisher, to alert the West that the evil empire is about to collapse of its own absurd weight. Can Western spies trust the dissident? Just how safe is the "safe house" where Barley parleys with his sexy Russian contact, Katya? Where should Barley's loyalty lie, with love or country?
The Secret Pilgrim is almost a short-story collection. (That's why it was broken into three separate audio versions: The Fledgling Spy, The Spy Who Came of Age, and The Spy in His Prime.) Ned, a British spook who Barley troubled in The Russia House, invites le Carré's legendary spy George Smiley to lecture his new class of recruits. Smiley's remarks alternate with Ned's reminiscences of his own covert adventures, from the sublimely ridiculous to the scathingly scary. The new kids have no idea what tortuous moral torments await them, but le Carré gives us an idea. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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John le Carre was born in 1931. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy: Tinke, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Honorable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People. His novels include The Little Drummer Girl, A Perfect Spy, The Russia House, Our Game, The Taileor of Panama, and Single & Single. John le Carre lives in Cornwall.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Three birds with one stone,
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This review is from: John Le Carré : Three Complete Novels ( Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / The Honourable Schoolboy / Smiley's People ) (Hardcover)
A winning trifecta from the Spymaster. Revisit the good old days of the cold war and espionage through the eyes of everyman intelligence genius George Smiley in three of LeCarre's best. An excellent writer of prose, with an ear for understated English conversation, LeCarre is an underrated novelist, as plot, dialogue, and denoument are all strong. All three novels combined is a must read for spy readers, and a pleasing literary work for those who appreciate top notch writing skills.
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Outstanding modern fiction,
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This review is from: John Le Carré : Three Complete Novels ( Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / The Honourable Schoolboy / Smiley's People ) (Hardcover)
I was interested in the espionage story but what I found most compelling were the characters and how much i grew to care about them over time (especially Smiley). The conclusion, that if you choose the methods of your enemy you are no better than your enemy is quite true. I do not like much modern fiction but found these three novels completely compelling, and have read them twice.
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LeCarre and Smiley: men who transcend the genre,
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This review is from: John Le Carré : Three Complete Novels ( Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / The Honourable Schoolboy / Smiley's People ) (Hardcover)
Master sleuth George Smiley, now retired, has a problem. The whole of Britain's intelligence web, and possibly the future of Britain itself, lie uncovered and bleeding from wounds delivered by a British double agent. Smiley must come out of retirement and perform a miracle. The manner in which he attempts to do so, as related by John Le Carre, is no less than a miracle in itself. Le Carre's Smiley novels are masterworks of intricacy, double and triple dealing, subtle and surprising plot twists, and remarkable characterizations at every turn. Smiley and his associates, in London and Hong Kong and Vietman and a brown Italian hillside, are fully-developed characters, as real as their problems. Le Carre's novels are a wondrously complex combination of superior writing and lively plots, grand and memorable treats for the discerning reader. Le Carre has been compared to Dickens once too often; Great Expectations was never this exciting.
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