{"product_id":"the-honourable-schoolboy","title":"The Honourable Schoolboy","description":"\u003cp\u003eTinker  Tailor  Soldier  Spy -- John le Carres last tremendous success-ended with the devastating unmasking of a double agent at the heart of the British Secret Service (known as the Circus to le Carres millions of readers round the world). Now  in The Honourable Schoolboy  George Smiley -- who has assumed the unenviable job of restoring the health  and reputation  of his demoralized organisation -- goes over to the attack. Salvaging what he can of the Services ravaged network of spies  summoning back a few trustworthy old colleagues  working them -- and himself-around the clock  he searches for a whisper  a hint  a clue that will lead him back to his opposite number: Karla  the Soviet officer in Moscow Centre who masterminded the infamous treachery.  When he finds his opening  Smiley moves without hesitation. His battleground: the Far East. His choice of weapons: the Honourable Gerald (Jerry) Westerby  an Old Asia Hand  veteran of several marriages (and wars)  unquestioning in his readiness to answer Smileys summons. \"You point me and Ill march \" says Jerry.  Jerrys odyssey begins: to Hong Kong-and blackmail and murder; to collapsing Cambodia and Vietnam-and drug traffickers  the CIA  and a huge and mystifying \"gold seam\" spilling out of Russia. Slowly  manipulated by Smiley and his cohorts back in the Circus  Jerry thrusts himself into the centre of an intrigue of money  defection  passion -- and finds not only fertile ground for Smileys revenge  but a drama of loyalty and love that both tests his courage and spurs his belated coming of age  in tragic defiance of the voracious requirements of the trice which owns his allegiance.  Here is John le Carres richest  most accomplished work. Suspense  excitement  the techniques of espionage as only he has been able to make them real for us -- together with a Towing capacity for sustained action  a grandly conceived and intricately drawn plot  and profound observation of the Far Eastern landscape. The Honourable Schoolboy is both a supreme entertainment and a major novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945414488117,"sku":"ByrdShop_0394416457","price":27.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780394416458.jpg?v=1769887952","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-honourable-schoolboy","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}