This is an auction for SMILEY'S PEOPLE by John Le Carre.

The third book in the trilogy which began with TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY and continued with THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY.

"The ultimate espionage novel."

• Publishers Weekly (US)

"Abounds in breath stopping scenes... an enormously skilled and satisfying work."

• Newsweek magazine

"A splendid spy story... a fine narrative, a delight to read... intricate, exciting, absorbing."

• Chicago Tribune

Amazon.com review:

"John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him - and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley - unprecedented worldwide acclaim. Rounding off his astonishing vision of a clandestine world, master storyteller le Carre perfects his art in SMILEY'S PEOPLE. In London at dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people - "the no-men of no-man's land" - into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland as he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla."

More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Paperback 1980.

335 pages.

Good condition.

The cost of shipping is $3.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Wellington following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.