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 ...
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.
