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by John LeCarre

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ISBN: 0451024958
Author: John LeCarre
Publisher: Signet (1964)
Language: English
Pages: 128
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Rating: 4.7
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Category: Mystery
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Praise for john le carré. Le Carré is more than just a great storyteller-he captures the Zeitgeist itself.

Praise for john le carré. Le Carré is simply the world’s greatest fictional spymaster. He is one of the half-dozen best novelists now working in English. JOHN LE CARRÉ was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Berne and Oxford, he spent five years in the British Foreign Service. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, his third book, secured him a worldwide reputation.

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A Call for the Dead (1961) A novel by John Le Carré I A Brief History Of George Smiley When Lady Ann Sercomb married Geroge Smiley towards the end of the war she described him to her astonished Mayfair friends as breathtakingly ordinary. Читать онлайн Call For The Dead. I. A Brief History Of George Smiley.

Call for the Dead is John le Carré's first novel, published in 1961. It introduces George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in a story about East German spies inside Great Britain. It also introduces a fictional version of British Intelligence, called "the Circus" because of its location in Cambridge Circus, that is apparently based on MI6 and that recurs throughout le Carré's spy novels. Call for the Dead was filmed as The Deadly Affair, released in 1966.

This, John le Carré’s first novel, introduces British intelligence officer George Smiley, who will go on to appear in. .Call for the Dead (1961) Introducing George Smiley. Intelligence employee Samuel Fennan is found dead beside a suicide note.

This, John le Carré’s first novel, introduces British intelligence officer George Smiley, who will go on to appear in seven subsequent le Carré books.

Penguin modern classics. And into the pagan fire they threw books in their hundreds. He knew whose books they were: Thomas Mann, Heine, Lessing and a host of others

Penguin modern classics. 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. He knew whose books they were: Thomas Mann, Heine, Lessing and a host of others. And Smiley, his damp hand cupped round the end of his cigarette, watching and hating, triumphed that he knew his enemy.

le Carré, John (Author). Book 1 of 9 in the George Smiley Novels Series. CALL FOR THE DEAD was first published in 1962 when I was but thirteen. It's hard to believe I was ever that juvenile. I may have read the book in the intervening years, though I suspect not.

Le Carré's first book, Call for the Dead, introduced the . The first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead is also the debut of John le Carré's masterful creation George Smiley.

Le Carré's first book, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit. Intelligent, thrilling, surprising. makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard' Sunday Telegraph'Brilliant. After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. Foreign Office civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently commits suicide after a routine security check by Circus agent George Smiley. Smiley had interviewed and cleared Fennan only days previously after an anonymous accusation; because of this, Circus head of service Maston sets up Smiley to be blamed for Fennan's death

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journey to his club to observe that the cat was out of the bag. This remark, which enjoyed a brief season as a mot, can only be understood by those who knew Smiley. Short, fat and of a quiet disposition, he appeared to spend a lot of money on really bad clothes, which hung about his squat frame like a skin on a shrunken toad

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess Â'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'. This dramatisation, set in London in the late 1950s, finds Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting. But when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide after an apparently unproblematic interview, Smiley is baffled. Refusing to believe that Fennan shot himself soon after making a cup of cocoa and asking the exchange to telephone him in the morning, Smiley decides to investigate - only to uncover a murderous conspiracy with its roots in his own secret wartime past.

Comments: (7)

Pameala

"Smiley was no material for promotion and it dawned on him gradually that he had entered middle age without ever being young, and that he was ‒ in the nicest possible way ‒ on the shelf." ‒ from CALL FOR THE DEAD

I've been a tremendous fan of John le Carré's George Smiley for years. How could one not be, especially after having seen the BBC's exemplary television adaptations of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People, both starring Alec Guinness?

CALL FOR THE DEAD was first published in 1962 when I was but thirteen. (It's hard to believe I was ever that juvenile. I may have read the book in the intervening years, though I suspect not. But, alas, memory fails.)

At this late date after Smiley has disappeared from le Carré's repertoire and Sir Alec is deceased, the chief delight for me in CALL FOR THE DEAD was learning about George's induction into the Secret Service, his early assignments recruiting and running German agents against the Nazi regime, and his marriage to Ann. Even Smiley was young once, though he apparently missed the high points.

Smiley's introduction to the readers of spy fiction takes place in his world of 1961 when George, while investigating the apparent suicide of a Foreign Office official shortly after being interviewed (by George) regarding his wartime membership in the Communist Party, encounters a blast from his own wartime past.

To those who've followed George's adventures over the years, it's evident in CALL FOR THE DEAD ‒ which was also the author's very first novel ‒ that the Smiley's character is in for considerable development over future years. Indeed, George must rely on the efforts of others, particularly an Inspector Mendel, to bring this case to a successful conclusion. Without Mendel, I doubt that Smiley would've pulled it off. In le Carré's later stories featuring George , especially when he's up against the Soviet master-spy controller Karla, our hero takes center stage, however low key and inscrutable in manner, and relinquishes it to no one.

For readers of today's younger generations who may only be familiar with the author's most recent works and know nothing of Smiley, CALL FOR THE DEAD is the place to start. The Cold War is over, but George is timeless.

Hanelynai

Having read almost all of the works of John Le Carre, I decided to read this, his first novel, where the character is first introduced. I felt like I was getting reacquainted with an old friend. The author's writing style was superb and worth savoring in even his first books. This was followed later in his masterful Karla trilogy with Smiley again as the principal character. Le Carre was an unknown writer at the time and did not become the famous spy thriller author until he published "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold". Critics have compared subsequent spy novelists to Le Carre but he is in a class of his own.

Kakashkaliandiia

I wrote this for the other DVD of A Murder of Quality:
"I can no longer recall if this is the first of the Smiley character novels by John Le Carre' or whether it is "Call for the Dead". Doesn't matter, both are great stories that get foreshadowed by the even greater story of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and the even greater production of the story by Sir Alec Guinness as Smiley in the PBS series of Tinker Tailor. Nevertheless, this is still a great story and well acted movie. Eclipsed by the other production of Smiley with Sir Alec Guinness. It'll entertain you as a thrilling story. The intellectual spy as detective. Great stuff."
The questions asked for doing the review such as How would you describe the plot -- slow, some twists, full of surprises" just don't pertain to John Le Carre'. Of course it isn't James Bond and there aren't a bunch of thrilling car chases and shoot outs; This is Le Carre' --- his Smiley is an intellectual spy (turned detective for some of the early books) and still a detective in the finest sense of the word as he unravels the layered on clues that expose the truth. It isn't supposed to have action; it has enough following the seemingly minor things that put the jigsaw together. This is how you think of spies whether MI 5 or CIA doing the hard work of sifting through a lot of things to make a true picture appear.

Wanenai

I've read a few of the Smiley novels over the years and generally liked them. It is a mystery to me why, now, I have embarked upon the journey of reading them all -- in order.

The plot, of course, is superb, and the characters convincingly three-dimensional. Two unrelated items deserve mention:
1) DO NOT skip the Preface, in which the author charmingly explains how the Smiley novels came to be. Absolutely fascinating.
2) The diction and idiom are markedly more British here than in the later Smileys I've read (written with American as well as British markets in mind). Having lived in England for a year gave me a leg up, but I found myself relying upon Kindle's lookup function A LOT. It doesn't help that single words which an American "knows" can have very different meanings in England, but the average American reader will never think to look them up. Hence four stars, not five. But don't be put off! Buy it! Read it! And remember that this annoyance continues to abate throughout the later novels.

Kigul

Having enjoyed the "Smiley trilogy" (Tinker, Tailor / Honorable Schoolboy / Smiley's People) and enjoyed them immensely - Call for the Dead is a prequel of sorts that introduces you to some of the main characters earlier in their careers. If you're a le Carre fan - you will enjoy this book. If you're new to le Carre this isn't a "typical spy" thriller - it's a leisurely journey with George Smiley as he unravels the case systematically, eliminating suspects methodically. The book was written quite a while ago so some of the references may be a little hard to follow, but I think it still holds up fairly well. I enjoyed it and would recommend it. Spurred me to go back and read the trilogy and some of the newer books that I had missed.

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