Call for the Dead [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction)
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George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess ‘the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin’. This dramatisation, set in London in the late 1950s, finds Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting. But when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide after an apparently unproblematic interview, Smiley is baffled. Refusing to believe that Fennan shot himself soon after making a cup of cocoa and asking the exchange to telephone him in the morning, Smiley decides to investigate - only to uncover a murderous conspiracy with its roots in his own secret wartime past. Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron and Anna Chancellor, this tense, thrilling dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carré's masterful début novel.
2 CDs. 1 hr 30 mins.
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Review:
'Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense ... excellent writing.' (The Observer)
'Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard.' (The Sunday Telegraph)
'A subtle and acute story of counterespionage marked by restraint, indirection, and intelligence.' (The New York Times Book Review)
'Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess "the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin".' (Audible.com)
Book Description:
'Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard.' (The Sunday Telegraph)
'A subtle and acute story of counterespionage marked by restraint, indirection, and intelligence.' (The New York Times Book Review)
'Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess "the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin".' (Audible.com)
Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carré's first novel, which introduced his most famous character, George Smiley.
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- PublisherFindaway World
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1441735631
- ISBN 13 9781441735638
- BindingPreloaded Digital Audio Player
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