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

by John le Carre

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0340766468
  • ISBN13 9780340766460
  • Publish Date 20 July 2000 (first published 1 January 1961)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 June 2007
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
  • Imprint Sceptre
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 160
  • Language English