Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a thriller book written by British-Irish novelist John le Carré in 1974. It recounts the efforts of taciturn, aged spymaster George Smiley to find a Soviet snitch within the British Secret Intelligence Service. Following Kim Philby's defection, the novel gained critical acclaim for its profound social commentary—and, at the moment, timeliness. The novel has been turned into a television series as well as a film, and it continues to be a standard of the espionage fiction genre.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré is so intricate that most cinematic adaptations have failed to appropriately adapt its complex narrative. Le Carré nails the essence of espionage and the futility of the job, as well as the futility of war itself, in his twisting tale. Even CIA personnel, writing anonymously, praised it as "one of the most lasting portrayals of the profession", and it is now regarded as one of the finest espionage thrillers ever written.

Detailed information:

Author: John le Carré

Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Spy novel

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