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Call for the Dead
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  • Published: 21 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141198286
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $28.00

Call for the Dead

  • John le Carré
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Paperback
25 July 2023
Paperback
21 Dec 2011
EBook
16 Dec 2011
Audiobook
28 Nov 2024
Audiobook
1 June 2009
Hardback
14 Sept 2021
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A gripping tale of espionage and deceit from the master of the spy novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined?

Le Carré's debut novel, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.
  • Published: 21 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141198286
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $28.00
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Praise for Call for the Dead

Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard.

Sunday Telegraph

Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense.

Observer

An extraordinary writer who brought literary lustre and lived insight to the spy yarn.

Ian Rankin

One of those writers who will be read a century from now.

Robert Harris

His Smiley novels are key to understanding the mid-20th century.

Margaret Atwood

Brilliant, popular, intelligent, thrilling, suspenseful, angry, original, masterful writing. Can't be topped.

Armando Iannucci

What Joseph Conrad started, John le Carré enshrined and made modern. That is the real achievement of his great novels and why they will endure ... we should see him as our contemporary Dickens.

William Boyd, New Statesman

The greatest spy novelist of all time ... astounding works of the imagination.

Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph

Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense

Observer

Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard

Sunday Telegraph