Call for the Dead - Softcover

Le Carré, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143171399 ISBN 13: 9780143171393

Publisher: Penguin Canada, 2010

Synopsis

TWO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERS IN ONE VOLUME

MEET THE CLEVEREST AND MOST SELF-EFFACING MAN IN SECURITY

A Murder of Quality

There has been a murder at one of England's leading public schools – a murder forecast by the victim. As a favour to an old friend , George Smiley pays a visit to Carne School to listen, to ask, and to uncover, layer by layer, the complex network of skeletons and hatreds that comprise that fine English institution.

Call for the Dead

Samuel Fennan, a Foreign Office man, was under investigation for Communist activities, until Smiley dismissed the allegations. When Fennan is found dead the day after he’s been cleared, with a note by his body saying he can't go on with his career in ruins, Smiley is puzzled...

A deeper investigation uncovers a spy ring and Smiley is led into a lethal duel of wits with the best of his war-time pupils.

About this title

About the Author

John le Carré 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 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; and Smiley’s People. His recent novels include The Constant Gardener, Absolute Friends, The Mission Song, A Most Wanted Man, and Our Kind of Traitor. A Delicate Truth is his twenty-third novel.

Review

"Let me be specific: I think the man deserves the Nobel." - The Globe and Mail

“As the greatest spy novelist of our times John le Carré has always used as the bedrock of his craft the strange ways people are bound to each other.” - Calgary Sun

“In a world where villains can bleed tragedy and heroes may not be so heroic, le Carré is still our keenest arbiter.” - Winnipeg Free Press

“No other contemporary novelist has more durably enjoyed the twin badges of being both well read and well regarded.” - Scott Turow

“Le Carré, always an intriguing blend of patrician and populist, gives voice to all our contempt for hot-money deals.” - Independent (UK)

“I would suggest immortality for John le Carré.... May he write forever!” - Chicago Tribune

“A literary master for a generation.” - Observer (UK)

"Le Carré is more than just a great storyteller—he captures the Zeitgeist itself." - Tom Wolfe

"Le Carré is simply the world’s greatest fictional spymaster.” - Newsweek

"He is one of the half-dozen best novelists now working in English." - The Chicago Sun-Times

"No other contemporary novelist has more durably enjoyed the twin badges of being both well-read and well-regarded." - Scott Turow

"For my money, le Carré is the equal of any novelist now writing in English." - Guardian (UK)

"Le Carré is one of the best novelists—of any kind—we have." - Vanity Fair

"[A Murder of Quality is a] beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty story." - Daily Telegraph (UK)

"[Call For The Dead is] intelligent, thrilling, surprising ...makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard." - Sunday Telegraph (UK)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Canada
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0143171399
• ISBN 13: 9780143171393
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 312