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Call for the Dead (George Smiley #1)

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John le Carré 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, who is introduced in this, his first novel -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.

George Smiley had liked Samuel Fennan, and now Fennan was dead...more

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Published January 29th 2002 by Scribner (first published 1961)

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Dec 28, 2010 Evan rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Le Carré is one of the greatest writers of thrillers of all time. At worst, he seems to produce a story that is merely entertaining and engaging.

This book—which I believe was his first—reminded me a great deal of Graham Greene's work: It was short, fast-paced, and highly entertaining. But even in so short a book his talent for weaving intricately tangled webs of espionage asserts itself. He strings the reader along throughout the narrative dropping little clues here and there, slowly revealing t...more

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Apr 20, 2008 Peter rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: espionage-spy, fiction

The first great George Smiley novel. I read Tinker Tailor a while back after seeing the Sir Alec Guinness Masterpiece Theater bit, and that lead me to want to read the other Smiley Novels. This is just great writing. Le Carre has a command of language and character that you don't generally see in this genre; his digs at class and society are priceless. It's no wonder he is seen almost without argument as the author of the greatest series of spy/thriller/espionage books ever written. Can't wait t...more

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May 07, 2012 Rob Kitchin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Call For The Dead was Le Carre's first book and also introduced George Smiley to the reading public. It's a moderately thin read (157 pages) and the plot is relatively straightforward, with no substantive subplots. What marks Le Carre out is his voice and the careful layering and rhythm of the prose. In many ways, the storytelling style of Call for the Dead reminded me of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's Martin Beck series, which was first published a couple of years later, in that the style is soci...more

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Aug 11, 2011 Paul Curd rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime-and-mystery, fiction

George Smiley is arguably one of the best known fictional British spies. He made his first appearance in Call for the Dead in 1961. The book also launched John le Carré’s career as a novelist. So if you’re new to le Carré and/or George Smiley, this is definitely the place to start.

In many ways, Call for the Dead is a book of its time. It opens with a chapter setting out ‘A Brief History of George Smiley’, something a modern novelist might find difficult to get away with. But the ‘backstory’ of S...more George Smiley is arguably one of the best known fictional British spies. He made his first appearance in Call for the Dead in 1961. The book also launched John le Carré’s career as a novelist. So if you’re new to le Carré and/or George Smiley, this is definitely the place to start.

In many ways, Call for the Dead is a book of its time. It opens with a chapter setting out ‘A Brief History of George Smiley’, something a modern novelist might find difficult to get away with. But the ‘backstory’ of Smiley is interesting and, in part, important to what follows. Smiley is described variously as ‘breathtakingly ordinary’, ‘short, fat and of a quiet disposition’, ‘a shrunken toad’ and so on (and that’s just on page one!). So, if it’s Bond or Bourne you’re after, you'd best look elsewhere.

The story begins at chapter two. Set in a London I remember from my youth at the start of the Cold War, the novel still has half an eye on the Second World War, when Smiley was a field operative. Now confined to routine security clearance work, he is summoned to ‘the Circus’ to explain why a senior civil servant he recently interviewed should have committed suicide. Smiley felt the man posed no risk despite an anonymous tip-off to the contrary, so he is as puzzled as his superiors. With the help of a retired policeman, Smiley sets out to solve the mystery. In that respect, this is more a detective novel than a spy story.

As with all Le Carré novels, there are twists and turns in the plot and, although I managed to guess the answer to the mystery a little sooner than I would have liked, I remained involved and interested enough to read to the very end to see if I was right. And I rewarded with an exciting set-piece climax on Battersea Bridge to round everything off.
Set in a London of yellow fog and of a River Thames that smells of tar and coke, this is a novel that paints a brilliant picture of post-war Britain. I read this immediately after Sarah Waters’ latest, The Little Stranger, and Call for the Dead similarly has as much to say (albeit unconsciously, to a certain extent) about the nature of the class system as it was in this country, barely fifty years ago, as well as the murky world of post-war espionage. But it is also about the human condition, as all truly good books are.

Overall, a very satisfying read.

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Jul 25, 2011 Matthew Kresal rated it 4 of 5 stars

Almost fifty years ago, John le Carre (aka David Cornwall) began his career with this little novel. Call For The Dead is part murder mystery, part Cold War thriller that begins with the apparent suicide of a British Foreign Office official who had been accused of being a communist while at Oxford. The man who interviewed him just prior to his death is none other then George Smiley, the character who would become so prevalent in many of le Carre's novels until the 1990s. Smiley is given a fine an...more

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Mar 16, 2010 Laken rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Mar 12, 2013 Chris Gager rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

My edition is from the same publisher but much earlier - "first published in the United states in 1962". I found it at the local transfer station. Hardbound... This is the book source for "The Deadly Affair", a Joseph Losey film featuring James Mason as Smiley but with a name change, perhaps because Mason in no way resembles the physical description of GS in the book. Also the first Smiley novel I do believe... In just the first few paragraphs the writing is much superior to Robert Silverberg's...more

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Jul 10, 2012 rameau rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2012, whodunit, manually-added

If you can't tell by now, I'm slightly obsessed with le Carré's writing style. Even in its translations it's simple, to the point, and almost wholly without the unnecessary embellishments that plague so many other works. Maybe that's why the first chapter, the short description of George Smiley, was added--what do I know, I'm only guessing but it feels like an after thought more than a part of the story--to the book. Without it, you'd have to read the last page to get a real feel of him.

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Jan 18, 2013 Lawrence FitzGerald rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 1960-s

John le Carré's first novel and I liked it.

You can see the mature le Carré in this first effort. He uses good prose, knows the value of characterization, has sufficient story to carry the word count, and uses the George Smiley plot device.

Good prose is the mark of a good writer and le Carré always delivers: forceful, fresh, and concise.

At 150 pages, Call for the Dead is short and the story is not overly elaborate. Finding the clues could have been a little more subtle, with a little more misdire...more

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Aug 11, 2012 Steve rated it 4 of 5 stars

In essence this is a bit history concerning the early life of George Smiley's the spy, his operational days to his eventual reluctant retirement. It covers his war time service, doing whatever spies do and the personnel he met and come up against along the way. One of these people was one Dieter Frey a crippled student where Smiley was teaching, and talent spotting during his spell in Germany.

Smiley disregarded Frey as suitable clandestine material simply because of his disablement but many yea...more

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Sep 05, 2011 Jordan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery

'Call for the Dead' is an action-filled prelude for the typically frigid and melancholy continuance of Le Carre's 'Smiley series' of novels. The book was Le Carre's first published work, and it's easy to see the rough edge of how he was still refining the intricate style that would later be perfected in 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold' and the 'Karla trilogy.'

'Call for the Dead' reads more like a detective novel than Le Carre's later works. In it, the immortally old George Smiley teams with...more 'Call for the Dead' is an action-filled prelude for the typically frigid and melancholy continuance of Le Carre's 'Smiley series' of novels. The book was Le Carre's first published work, and it's easy to see the rough edge of how he was still refining the intricate style that would later be perfected in 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold' and the 'Karla trilogy.'

'Call for the Dead' reads more like a detective novel than Le Carre's later works. In it, the immortally old George Smiley teams with a local detective inspector to look into the alleged suicide of a foreign office civil servant with connections to the Circus. The plot is clearer, with less characters and turns than the dark and twisting corners the Karla trilogy created. It's a bit humorous how Le Carre takes several stops to actually lay out the clues and events of the book so far for the reader's benefit, when in later books, he can cover territory this complicated in a few chapters without so much as a breath of explanation to those following along.

The story serves as Le Carre's introduction of Smiley, who in his following six books has gone on to become one of the most recognized characters in contemporary British fiction. This Smiley is more unhinged, sentimental and unpracticed than the master spy of subsequent works. But there is still the occasional veiled reference at the heights he will climb to, and then attack from in his later career. 'Call for the Dead' is also one of the most cohesive narratives Le Carre gifts to the reader about Smiley's relationship to his disloyal wife, Anne. While she plays a key role in later books, it's seldom we receive a scene between her and Smiley to show why they've put up with each other for such a stretch of time. Peter Guillam, Smiley's perpetual Watson-esque companion, also makes his first showing in the novel. However, in this stage he's portrayed as from a nearer period to Smiley, as opposed to being the young prototype he later took the form of in the Karla trilogy.

'Call for the Dead' is lacking in the smokey meeting rooms and lengthy interrogations that populate Le Carre's later books. It's slicker as a crime novel, but lacks the depth and exquisite characterization Le Carre would find later on. However, skipping over it would leave readers without an introduction to George Smiley, a man we can follow for thousands of pages and still find an enigma. 'Call for the Dead' is Le Carre's most complete present to readers as to the origins of the melancholy master spy. (less)

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Oct 04, 2012 Bob rated it 4 of 5 stars

Call for the Dead, master spywriter John le Carré's first novel (1961), introduces George Smiley, the rumpled, curmudgeonly British operative, to a generation of suspense enthusiasts. Short and squat, Oxford-educated, shrewd yet scarcely able to defend himself in violent encounters, Smiley is the anti-Bond, a dogged Inaction Hero without a hint of handsome, with only a reluctant, undashing dash of derring-do.

Structured as a simple mystery, with a murder investigation at its core and only tangent...more

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Jan 19, 2012 Andre rated it 3 of 5 stars

I’d never heard of John Le Carré before my wife and I saw Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy last weekend. We loved the movie. I thought it was great. I decided to go back and read all of Le Carré’s George Smiley novels. Call for the Dead is the first of them, Le Carré’s first novel of any type. I didn’t expect much from it; I knew that Le Carré was still trying to find himself as he wrote it. In his introduction to the novel, he stated that he wrote on the train during his morning commute and that hi...more

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Oct 18, 2012 Buck Jones rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is the first of the George Smiley series of spy novels written by Le Carre. Published in 1961, it changed the genre of spy novel - and created the legend that begat John le Carre. The story begins with the apparent suicide of an accused spy within the British Foreign Service. George Smiley, the un-glamorous middle aged agent for the Intelligence Services, is sent to follow-up with the widow to close any loose ends since it was he who had interviewed (and cleared) him the day before his suic...more

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Mar 07, 2012 Deanna Knippling rated it 5 of 5 stars

There has been a lot of blah-di-blah about who the literary successor for Jane Austin should be. Well, it's too late; it's John Le Carre. Just because he happens to write Cold-War thrillers doesn't mean that every word isn't infused with the same sense of humor, the same love of the ordinary, the same lovely tendency to linger with friends, whether they be seemingly-mundane characters or sentences themselves.

"When Lady Ann Sercomb married George Smiley towards the end of the war she described hi...more

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Oct 29, 2010 Iain rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The first in le Carre's George Smiley series.

I think everybody knows the story. Smiley is the brilliant but determindly innocuous officer in British intelligence. This first meeting sees him sent to investigate the suicide of a civil servant which as you can already guess becomes anything but a straightforward assingment.
This first book introduces us to Smiley giving some of his background and features two recurring characters in the series Peter Guilllam and the nosyparker ex-copper Mendel.

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Jul 16, 2012 Anabelle Bernard Fournier rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: thriller

One of the most important thriller novelists of the 20th century, John le Carré has literally written the book about spy stories. As I found myself interested in reading spy narratives, I decided to begin with him, and his first novel.

I find it fascinating that his first spy novel, Call for the Dead, showcases a tired, cynical spy who wants out of the job. George Smiley is an experienced intelligence officer who's lived through the Second World War, but who's not that excited about the job anym...more One of the most important thriller novelists of the 20th century, John le Carré has literally written the book about spy stories. As I found myself interested in reading spy narratives, I decided to begin with him, and his first novel.

I find it fascinating that his first spy novel, Call for the Dead, showcases a tired, cynical spy who wants out of the job. George Smiley is an experienced intelligence officer who's lived through the Second World War, but who's not that excited about the job anymore. He's become tired, cynical and is more or less ready to retire. One morning, he receives a note that an agent, whom he interviewed because of an anonymous denounciation of being a Communist, has committed suicide. Smiley is sent to Fennan's home as a matter of course, only to suspect that the man has been murdered. After his boss refuses to look into the murder, Smiley quits to solve the crime on his own.

Follows a mystery involving old pupils, theatre, a phone call mystery and classic spy tradecraft. I think that strictly speaking, this isn't exactly a spy story, but rather a murder mystery involving spies. And yet, the story was satisfying and well-crafted.

Let's begin with Le Carré's style. The first thing I noticed was the razor-sharp, no-frills writing that goes straight to the heart of any person, place or action. There are no superfluous words or sentences, nothing but the essential. This makes for a very tight reading experience--sometimes to the point of wondering if it won't break. It often feels more like a report than a story, and the writing swings uncomfortably between the two.

Indeed, I found myself a bit startled at many points in the novel. The characters are often introduced without much ado, and we are given very little chance to know who they are before they start affecting the story. Therefore, I had often trouble differentiating Mendel from Guillam and figuring out who was who for the minor characters. The point of view also often changed abruptly, making me wonder whose perspective or action we were witnessing at the moment.

The mystery, mysterious as it was, eventually gets solved. The book would have ended well if Le Carré had avoided the final report which basically summarizes the entire story in writing that's even more economical, if that was ever possible. I think this section could easily have been ommited, as the book is already short enough and doesn't require a final "here's what happened in the book" chapter.

Despite its faults, though, I found myself rooting for Smiley and his friends. Smiley is weirdly sympathetic for being so cold and cynical. But maybe that's part of being a spy: you can't let yourself have feelings or be hopeful, as you've seen the worst of human guile and evil. Murder, blackmail and manipulation are matters of course for fictional spies; how can one remain happy and hopeful in such an environment?

Thematically, the book explores the breakdown of traditional British society after the Second World War. Characters live in neighbourhoods that they "shouldn't" live in; a Jewish man works in the Foreign Office, a traditionally very British and classist environment; the threat of communism is ever-present as East German spies, trained by the British, start popping up everywhere; Smiley and his friends keep this old-style "club" maintained by their old Oxford (or was it Cambridge?) landlady. It's not as obvious as in second book, but you can see a hint of interest in this topic in this first book.

This book matters because it's the first from one of the major writers of the second half of the 20th century. Call for the Dead gives us a glimpse of the talent and abilities of an up-and-coming thriller writer, whom everyone will want to emulate within a few years. I am definitely looking forward to the next novel!(less)

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Jan 12, 2013 Clint Cypert rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: spy-thriller

John Le Carre is one of my favorite authors of the spy/clandestine/espionage genre. I have read several of his novels, but I have never read his first novel, Call for the Dead, until this weekend. This is the novel that he introduces George Smiley, an intelligence officer for MI6, that is a fixture in many of his other novels. In Call for the Dead, Smiley has fallen from grace and is stuck doing some menial tasks for MI6. Around the same time, a fellow agent is found dead, apparently of suicide,...more

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Jan 06, 2013 Erik rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: espionage, fiction, thriller

Having read more of Le Carré's later work it was interesting to go back to where it all began. And I'm inclined to say that, on this evidence, his earlier work is better. The narrative is tighter than in his later corpus; perhaps in the earlier days he was working with material with which he was more familiar. The Mission Song and Our Kind of Traitor were much less gripping to me, albeit that I really liked The Constant Gardener. It's hard to beat the context of the Cold War as a setting for a t...more

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Oct 31, 2012 Sean Randall rated it 4 of 5 stars

I absolutely got into this novel, it was gripping right from the get go. I did feel as if I was familiar with a somewhat later Smiley, a more warn and experienced operator who seemed to have turned completely away from the physical contact of operations, and perhaps here we see why. Everything impacted more, somehow, for knowing some of the mans future exploits.

Similarly, Le Carré's narrative is less meandering, with undeniable characteristics of his in place but less wordy, somehow, without los...more

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Dec 13, 2009 Ed rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Espionage fans

Shelves: spy-political-thriller, reviewed

What a delightful surprise!

This book is where George Smiley is introduced. Le Carre provides the reader with a short biography including his failed marriage.

While not as good a read as some of his subsequent novels, it is a well-plotted story with very interesting characters in addition to the enigmatic Smiley.

To really understand Smiley, one must read this book.

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Jan 18, 2013 Neil rated it 4 of 5 stars

A quick and compact little read that is very valuable for introducing the characters of George Smiley and other who appear later in the series. Unlike some of the other books termed "George Smiley" novels by the publisher, this one focuses very closely on Smiley as the protagonist and provides background about George's days during the war as well as his relationship with Anne. I wish, in many ways, that I had read this before _Tinker Tailor_ since I would have had a more distinct sense of Smiley...more

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Jan 28, 2012 Erin (PT) rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: assassins-spies, mainstream, thriller

I'd never read a Le Carre book before, but you can't really be a mystery/thriller fan without hearing the name, and a viewing of the recent adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy made as good an excuse as any to finally check him out.

When you're coming from a movie--and a recent one, at that--you don't really know what to expect; novels are generally very different from their movie counterparts and, more, I was going to the beginning of the George Smiley books, which meant it was a different s...more I'd never read a Le Carre book before, but you can't really be a mystery/thriller fan without hearing the name, and a viewing of the recent adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy made as good an excuse as any to finally check him out.

When you're coming from a movie--and a recent one, at that--you don't really know what to expect; novels are generally very different from their movie counterparts and, more, I was going to the beginning of the George Smiley books, which meant it was a different story altogether. It's an interesting experience, completely aside from the story itself because a) it's a British book, which means there's a certain amount of cultural lag for me, an American and b) it was written in 1961, so it's not just cultural lag, it's a historical cultural lag, especially since the 60's is that weird period that lies just before my birth: recent enough to be graphically and explicitly documented and lie within my cultural memory, but still historical; that is, my knowledge of it is not personal. Neither of these elements was any type of obstacle; what was important was more than clear enough by context and anything that passed over my head, as a too-young American didn't impact my ability to enjoy or appreciate the story.

In fact, if anything, I think that has to be Le Carre's greatest strength; though on the face of it, the story is definitely tied to a certain period of time, the emotional and ideological elements of the story hang on more timeless moorings, as, I think, stories of this type have to. There are only so many reasons for a crime and they're usually very basic: love, hate, sex, money, power.

The book starts rather slowly, with a history of Smiley, the protagonist, and, in the first several pages, I wondered if this was really a book for me. But somewhere between the 9th and 42nd page (there's no significance to those numbers, other than that's when I noticed these things) the gimme set in, and my usual delight at a well-told mystery set in. When talking about it with my husband, we both agreed that the mystery itself is rather predictable at this late date in the genre, but we were both willing to give it a pass because it is from an earlier era of the genre, before these tropes were so well developed and used (in part because of writers like Le Carre) and because the story is interestingly told enough to make guessing ahead of the game a pleasure.

The book feels very much of it's time and it's origin, but it was a fun read and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I'm going to have to bug the husband to hurry and finish the second Smiley book, so I can read it!(less)

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Nov 28, 2009 pinknantucket rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ms-readathon-2003

A story involving Le Carre’s famous hero, George Smiley, the ultimate spy. Set around the same era as the James Bond novels (Cold War), but so much more interesting – probably because George Smiley has much more depth than Bondy, and because it’s a book it doesn’t matter so much that he’s a bit podgy and sweats a lot.

Smiley interviews an MP who’s been accused of having Communist sympathies – and the same man turns up dead the next day, apparently having killed himself after his talk with Smiley....more

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Aug 04, 2012 Lauren rated it 3 of 5 stars

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From Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the novel and both of the film adaptations, I think I was under the impression that George Smiley was a much more... imposing isn't quite the word I'm looking for, but it's close—a more imposing figure. So the "brief history of George Smiley" threw me for a bit of a loop (as did the inclusion of such a chapter in itself—that kind of "historical" introduction before the story begins is rare outside victorian novels, in my experience). However, it worked, both to in...more

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Feb 12, 2012 Peter rated it 3 of 5 stars

Jean Le Carre's first book as well as his introduction of MI6 agent, George Smiley. Perhaps because I had already read the Karla trilogy and A Perfect Spy (my favorite of his work) among others, I felt this story to be a little thin. Smiley's nemeses are not very well-developed because they are described largely through the narration of Smiley himself. A certain, important clue is given early on, but the conveniently forgets about it until the end of the story (a clue I think Smiley would pay at...more

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Feb 06, 2012 Andy Zeigert rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I decided to start with John le Carre from the beginning.

CALL FOR THE DEAD introduces George Smiley, quite literally. The first chapter is a brief biography of the character leading up to the novel's events.

Le Carre's exceptional prose elevates what is otherwise a pretty simple murder mystery with espionage elements. Smiley investigates the suspicious death of a possible double agent, and uncovers a spy ring operating in London. Classic spycraft hijinks ensue.

Interestingly enough le Carre's cold...more

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Apr 06, 2013 Anthony rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery

I really loved the new movie version of LeCarre's TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY and decided to read the book. And then, in a used bookstore somewhere on the road, I found CALL FOR THE DEAD, with the cover proclaiming it "The novel that introduced George Smiley." So I figured, okay, start at the beginning, yeah?

I'm glad I did. CALL FOR THE DEAD is a pretty straight-foward murder mystery with spy trappings, but it serves as a fine introduction to Smiley and what makes him tick. Smiley, who is clearly...more

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Apr 16, 2012 Victoria (Eve's Alexandria) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime, thriller

Well that didn't take me long. Initially I questioned my wisdom in choosing this book - which is really an extended short story - as my first John le Carre. It's very much an example of a writer forming through the process of writing: the adhoc emergence of Smiley's character, the odd marriage of le Carre's languid prose style and the suspense requirements of a thriller, the changes of register as minor characters are reinvented, mid-novel, as major ones. But in the end I think I liked the book...more

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Mar 08, 2012 Bruce Snell rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is the first book in the George Smiley series by John le Carre - it is also le Carre's first book. In this book we are given some of Smiley's history, and his place in the British intelligence system, although the story is primarily a murder mystery within the spy community. After Smiley had interviewed Mr. Fennan regarding an anonymous complaint that Fennan was a communist, Fennon had apparently committed suicide. In the course of his investigation Smiley concluded that Fennan had, in fact...more

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