Smiley versus Karla · Book 2
The Honourable Schoolboy
- Published
- 1 January 1977
- Pages
- 576
- ISBN-13
- 9780553274370
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Honourable Schoolboy followed in 1977 as the trilogy's longest volume at 576 pages, following the mole's fallout into Southeast Asia as Smiley tries to rebuild British intelligence's shattered network.
Its place in Smiley versus Karla
The Honourable Schoolboy is book 2 in the Smiley versus Karla series. It follows Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It is followed by Smiley's People. 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 9780553274370