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The Karla Trilogy by John Le Carre 

In September or October 1973, the events of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy take place, with Smiley successfully managing to expose the long-term Soviet agent, or “mole”, codenamed “Gerald”. The investigation revealed that Gerald, who was actually a senior member of the anti-Control faction that had taken over the Service the previous year, had passed an enormous quantity of high-grade intelligence to Moscow Centre while producing for the Service and its Whitehall customers a similar quantity of ‘chickenfeed’, i.e., low-value or misleading intelligence on the USSR. The mole is found to be Smiley’s colleague Bill Haydon, who was also at one time his wife’s lover. At the end of this case Smiley became interim Chief of the Service in late November 1973 to clean up the resultant mess, rebuilding the organisation’s headquarters staff by use of trusted old-timers like Guillam, Doc di Salis, and Connie Sachs. In 1975 or 1976, after the conclusion of “Operation Dolphin”, which was described at length in The Honourable Schoolboy, Smiley retired again from the Service. In Smiley’s People he was brought back in late 1977 to investigate the death of an elderly Estonian general, nationalist activist, and erstwhile Circus agent. A convoluted trail led Smiley to discover a human weakness in his nemesis Karla, whom he coerced to defect to the West in Berlin in December 1977. This triumph is the highlight of his career.

1. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. 2009.
2. The Honourable Schoolboy. 2010.
3. Smiley’s People. 2010.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impressions
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2009,2010, 2010
• Grey Cloth Hardback, 339, 500, 366 pp
• Illustrations by Tim Laing.
• Size 240 x 165mm, 3.6kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copies

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