Smileys People

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The concluding part of John le Carrs celebrated Karla Trilogy Smileys People sees the last confrontation between the indefatigable spymaster George Smiley and his great enemy as their rivalry comes to a shattering end. A Soviet defector has been assassinated on English soil and George Smiley is called back to the Circus to clear up - and cover up - the mess. But what he discovers sends him delving into the past on a trail through Hamburg and Paris to Cold War Berlin - and a final showdown with his elusive nemesis Karla. An enormously skilled and satisfying work Newsweek We are all Smileys people a kind of secular god of intelligence New Yorker THE SEVENTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL