Best George Smiley
A Legacy of Spies is a 2017 spy novel by John le Carré that revisits the Cold War events of his 1963 novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The narrative follows retired intelligence officer Peter Guillam, who is summoned back to London from his farm in Brittany to account for his role in the fat...
John le Carré's 1990 spy novel "The Secret Pilgrim" is structured as a frame narrative centered on Ned, a retiring officer in the British intelligence service known as the Circus. As Ned listens to a valedictory address by the renowned spymaster George Smiley to new recruits, he reflects on his own...
John le Carré's 1961 debut novel, introducing George Smiley as he investigates the apparent suicide of a Foreign Office clerk he had recently cleared of suspicion.
John le Carré's 1962 novel in which George Smiley investigates a murder at an elite English boarding school, departing from espionage into straight detective fiction.
