Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre

Series: George Smiley #5
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Length: 381 pages
Audiobook Length: 12 hours and 49 minutes
First Published: 1974

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Publisher’s Description

It is now beyond a doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed.

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Quotes from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one’s own generation.

There are moments that are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

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Movie Trailer for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)

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About John Le Carre

John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell was born the 19th of October 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England.  He was an English author of espionage novels. Le Carré had resided in St Buryan, Cornwall, Great Britain, for more than 40 years, where he owned a mile of cliff close to Land’s End.  He died in 2020.  Visit the author’s website →

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