![]() The battlefields are different here, they’re lonelier and farther away in distance and time. ![]() ![]() In TINKER TAILOR, war isn’t glorified or presented as uncensored and raw. The harder Smiley tries to understand the past, the muddier his memory gets. Unfortunately, both past and present are tainted when Smiley sets out on a mission to discover the identity of a double agent who infiltrated the ranks of the Circus and orchestrated the fall of Smiley and Prideaux. ![]() But at times TINKER TAILOR isn’t so much a spy novel as it is a ghost story about men haunted by the war.Ībandoned by his wife and forced into an early retirement from the Circus-Le Carré’s codename for British intelligence-Smiley is left alone with nothing but his memories of the past to keep him company. Clear away the fog of the Cold War and what will you see? That’s what George Smiley and Jim Prideaux, two spies hung out to dry by their agency, are trying to find out in John Le Carré’s classic spy novel, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY. ![]()
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