Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1) (Lamplighter S.) (The Smiley Collection)

by John le Carre

John Le Carre (Introduction)

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George Smiley had liked the man and now the man was dead. Suicide. But why

An anonymous letter had alleged that Foreign Office man Samuel Fennan had been a member of the Communist Party as a student before the war. Nothing very unusual for his generation. Smiley had made it clear that the investigation - little more than a routine security check - was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed.

Next day, Fennan was dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn't go on. Why Smiley was puzzled ...
  • ISBN10 0743431677
  • ISBN13 9780743431675
  • Publish Date 29 January 2002 (first published 1 January 1961)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 1 June 2017
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Scribner Book Company
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 144
  • Language English