John le Carré
"Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards."
George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy—which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he
...The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carre's bestselling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley.
With a star cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox, Ian MacDiarmid, Anna Chancellor, Hugh Bonneville and Lindsay Duncan, these enthralling dramatisations perfectly capture the atmosphere of le Carre's taut, thrilling spy novels.
Call for the Dead is the first Smiley novel,
Ranked among the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 by The Times, internationally bestselling author John le Carré is perhaps best known for his classic novel The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. In The Little Drummer Girl, aspiring actress Charlie travels to Mykonos, wanting only to escape the dreariness of her home in England. But once there she meets a handsome Israeli intelligence officer and is soon lured into a deadly
...Here is an extraordinary collection of work from some of the finest novelists of the twentieth century. Inspired by the politics of tyranny or war, each of these writers chose the base elements of spy fiction—highly evolved spy fiction—as the framework for a literary novel. Thus Alan Furst offers a diverse array...