And so whoever killed Sam Fennan was anxious that he should not talk to a security officer. Someone in the Foreign Office, perhaps. But essentially someone who knew Smiley too. Someone Fennan had known at Oxford, known as a communist, someone who feared exposure, who thought that Fennan would talk, had talked already, perhaps? And if he had talked already then of course Smiley would have to be killed – killed quickly before he could put in his report. That would explain the murder of Fennan and the assault on Smiley. It made some sense, but not much. He had built a card-house as high as it
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