Smiley versus Karla · Book 3
Smiley's People
- Published
- 1 January 1979
- Pages
- 388
- ISBN-13
- 9780553251982
- Type
- novel
About this book
Smiley's People closed the trilogy in 1979 at 388 pages, finally bringing Smiley and his Soviet counterpart Karla into direct, personal confrontation.
Its place in Smiley versus Karla
Smiley's People is book 3 in the Smiley versus Karla series. It follows The Honourable Schoolboy. See the full Smiley versus Karla reading order.
The Karla Trilogy is John le Carré's masterwork: three novels tracing a decade-long, deeply personal chess match between George Smiley -- the rumpled, brilliant, endlessly patient former head of British intelligence -- and Karla, his unseen Soviet counterpart and opposite number. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy opens with Smiley pulled out of forced retirement to hunt a Soviet mole buried at the top of the Circus (le Carré's fictional MI6), in a novel built almost entirely from interviews, memory, and deduction rather…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553251982