LE CARRE, JOHN (PSEUD. DAVID JOHN MOORE CORNWELL ] — Call For The Dead

New York, Walker. 1962. Hardcover. Book, Here is popular author John le Carre's first novel and the one in which his famous spy character George Smiley is first introduced. Samuel Fennan, a Foreign Office man, was under investigation for Communist activities, until Smiley dismissed the allegations. When Fennan is found dead the day after he's been cleared, with a note by his body saying he can't go on with his career in ruins, Smiley is puzzled. A deeper investigation uncovers a spy ring and Smiley is led into a lethal duel of wits with the best of his war-time pupils. As New/As New.