The Honourable Schoolboy
John le Carré
Penguin
<p> As the fall of Saigon looms, master spy George Smiley must outmaneuver his Soviet counterpart on a battlefield that neither can afford to lose.  <br /></p><p>The mole has been eliminated, but the damage wrought has brought the British Secret Service to its knees. Given charge of the gravely compromised Circus, George Smiley embarks on a campaign to uncover what Moscow Centre most wants to hide. When the trail goes cold at a Hong Kong gold seam, Smiley dispatches Gerald Westerby to shake the money tree. A part-time operative with cover as a philandering journalist, Westerby insinuates himself into a war-torn world where allegiances-and lives-are bought and sold. <br /></p><p>Brilliantly plotted and morally complex, <em>The Honourable Schoolboy</em>, is the second installment of John le Carré's renowned Karla trilogy, and a riveting portrayal of post-colonial espionage.</p>Review<p>"All the good things are there: the Balkan complexities of plot; the Dickensian profusion of idiosyncratic characters; and above all, le Carré's glistening social observation." <br />-<em>Time</em> <br /></p><p>"Energy, compassion, rich and overwhelming sweep of character and action . . . one of the finest English novels of the seventies." <br />-<em>The Times</em> (London) </p>About the Author<p>John le Carré was born in 1931. His third novel, <em>The Spy Who Came in from the Cold</em>, secured him a world wide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy <em>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley’s People</em>. His recent novels include <em>The Constant Gardener, Absolute Friends, The Mission Song</em>, and <em>A Most Wanted Man. Our Kind of Traitor</em> is his twenty-second novel.</p>