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

by John le Carre

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: 0340568240
• ISBN13: 9780340568248
• Publish Date: 20 February 1992 (first published 1 January 1961)
• Publish Status: Transferred
• Out of Print: 24 June 2005
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Edition: New edition
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 160
• Language: English

Reviews

[viking2917]

Good fun. More of a detective story than a spy novel per se, but the characters are are wonderful . Great insight into how smiley became smiley. The early parts of the book are written so smoothly the sentences just reel off.