The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré

Smiley searches until he finds a case that has the fingerprints of the Russians all over it. George Smiley finds himself in the undesirable position of running this demoralized organization and decides his first priority should be to set right some of the damage Bill Haydon did to his beloved service. In this novel, the Circus, or British Secret Service, is still reeling with knowledge that one of its best and most respected agents was a Russian spy. His posthumous novel Silverview was published in 2021.The Honourable Schoolboy is a spy novel by the acclaimed author John Le Carre. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror.

His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. all burned on the brain of the reader' The New York Times Read more Look Inside Details the achievement is in the characters, major and minor. 'Energy, compassion, rich and overwhelming sweep of character and action' The Times

In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between Smiley and his Soviet adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. His aim: revenge on Karla, head of Moscow Centre and the architect of all his troubles. Using the talents of journalist and occasional spy Jerry Westerby, Smiley launches a risky operation uncovering a Russian money-laundering scheme in the Far East. George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history.

The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré