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John le Carré

John le Carré is the pen name of David John Moore Cornwell, who was born in 1931 in Poole, Dorset, and was educated at Sherborne School, at the University of Berne. He taught at Eton from 1956 to 1958 and was a Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Bonn and subsequently as Political Consul in Hamburg. He started writing novels in 1961, and since then has published 21 titles.

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Title:

Call for the Dead ABRIDGED (MP3)

Series:

George Smiley #1

Written by:

John le Carré 

Read by:

John le Carré 

Format:

Abridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

2 hours 14 minutes 

MP3 size:

93 MB 

Published:

October 01 2015 

Available Date:

October 01 2015 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489079084 

Genres:

Fiction; Crime & Thriller; Detective; General Fiction; Mystery 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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New York Times bestselling author

'Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense ... excellent writing.'
The Observer

The first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead is also the debut of John le Carré's masterful creation George Smiley.

George Smiley had liked the man and now the man was dead. Suicide. But why? An anonymous letter had alleged that Foreign Office man Samuel Fennan had been a member of the Communist Party as a student before the war. Nothing very unusual for his generation. Smiley had made it clear that the investigation, little more than a routine security check, was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed. Next day, Fennan was dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn’t go on. Smiley is baffled. Refusing to believe that Fennan shot himself soon after making a cup of cocoa and asking the exchange to telephone him in the morning, Smiley decides to investigate – only to uncover a murderous conspiracy with its roots in his own secret wartime past.

'Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess "the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin".'
Audible.com

'Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard.'
The Sunday Telegraph

'A subtle and acute story of counterespionage marked by restraint, indirection, and intelligence.'
The New York Times Book Review