Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (The Karla Trilogy, #1)

by John Le Carré

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how to kill an owl so well. Among the rest of the Thursgood community, opinion regarding Jim was less unanimous. The ghost of Mr. Maltby, the pianist, died hard. Matron, siding with Bill Roach, pronounced him heroic and in need of care: it was a miracle he managed with that back. Marjoribanks said he had

large back rooms of Whitehall. Some

the speaker,

Alone. It’s mainly floating restaurants

in that

“Part of

king wrote that,

assignment? You must speak up, George,”

At its centre lay Bill Haydon’s

even

ran down her blazer onto his hands.

intelligence interest.

the dissolution of his household, when his father

“Don’t be ridiculous. The Minister

Genghis Khan, said Haydon who was

the Witchcraft files, and, having vouchsafed

Then,

gin, was it, Percy, at the Travellers’?”

the old

that, do

document that Esterhase and Roy were

with

the

name into a house telephone:

plain

the sweat from his face with a handkerchief and blinked

silence you.

Smiley resumed. “Is that right?” He

visiting a hunting-lodge for the weekend, alone. It was a place high up in the

when

asked. “Or is there some little

and frowned a little, as if to say he

the less inclined you are

a resurgence