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* CommieNazis: These appear several times. Hans-Dieter Mundt, the antagonist of ''In from the Cold'', started his career in the Hitler Youth before joining East German intelligence. The East German jailer who appears towards the end denounces Jews in language that would fit right in at a Nuremberg rally.[[spoiler: Also possibly Bill Haydon in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" if you take his sketchy MotiveRant for granted.]]
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* CommieNazis: These appear several times. Hans-Dieter Mundt, the antagonist of ''In from the Cold'', started his career in the Hitler Youth before joining East German intelligence. The intelligence, and the East German jailer who appears towards the end denounces Jews in language that would fit right in at a Nuremberg rally.rally. The villain of ''A Small Town in Germany'' is a right-wing populist politician whose campaign platform calls for aa closer relationship between West Germany and the USSR, and [[spoiler:turns out to have been deeply involved in the Holocaust]]. [[spoiler: Also possibly Bill Haydon in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" if you take his sketchy MotiveRant for granted.]]
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* SpiritualAntithesis: To Creator/IanFleming and all his works, which Le Carre was on record as wholly despising. In Le Carre's world, the BigGood Western intelligence agencies are a ragtag collection of drunkards, failures, and whoremongers; the closest thing in his character canon to a "superspy" is George Smiley - brilliant but fat and badly-dressed with NoSocialSkills; and the only beautiful woman in his life is his wife, who cheats on him constantly.
-->''If the object of an Ian Fleming book is to make the reader say, "God, I wish that was me!", the object of mine is to make the reader say, "God, that ''could'' be me!"''
-->''If the object of an Ian Fleming book is to make the reader say, "God, I wish that was me!", the object of mine is to make the reader say, "God, that ''could'' be me!"''
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In November 2023 it was [[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/10/john-le-carres-son-to-write-new-george-smiley-novel announced]] that Le Carré's son Nicholas Cornwell would be writing a new George Smiley novel.
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* ''A Most Wanted Man'' (2008): Based on the real-life extraordinary rendition case of Murat Kurnaz. Adapted into a film starring Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman in one of his last roles.
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* ''A Most Wanted Man'' (2008): Based on the real-life extraordinary rendition case of Murat Kurnaz. [[TheFilmOfTheBook Adapted into a film film]] starring Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman in one of his last roles.
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* RefugeInAudacity: One passage in "Tinker Tailor" reads as this retroactively when one of the four main suspects [[spoiler:Haydon]] rants in frustration and in front of his subordinates about having to work with their American 'cousins' even remarking that it might be time for the UK to forsake the U.S as its ally and start joining forces with the "bloody" Russians already.[[spoiler: Turns out he's the mole]]
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* CommieNazis: These appear several times. Hans-Dieter Mundt, the antagonist of ''In from the Cold'', started his career in the Hitler Youth before joining East German intelligence. The East German jailer who appears towards the end denounces Jews in language that would fit right in at a Nuremberg rally.[[spoiler: Also possibly Bill Haydon in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" if you take his sketchy MotiveRant for granted.]]
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* [[/index]]''A Murder of Quality'' (1962): Smiley takes a brief retirement and ends up investigating a murder at a [[UsefulNotes/BritishEducationSystem public school]]. Less a spy novel than [[OddballInTheSeries a classic British murder mystery]] featuring retired spies. Adapted as a TV movie in 1991 with Denholm Elliot as Smiley.
* [[index]]''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' (1963): A direct sequel to ''Call for the Dead'' with a newly-promoted Mundt now the main antagonist. Alec Leamas, the head of the Circus's West Berlin station, is due to be discharged after Mundt kills most of his agents, but he is instead recruited into an elaborate plot to bring Mundt down. Adapted into a film starring Creator/RichardBurton as Leamas, with a TV adaptation by the people behind ''Series/TheNightManager'' planned. Both film and book are considered classics. Le Carré wrote it as a response to Creator/IanFleming.
* [[index]]''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' (1963): A direct sequel to ''Call for the Dead'' with a newly-promoted Mundt now the main antagonist. Alec Leamas, the head of the Circus's West Berlin station, is due to be discharged after Mundt kills most of his agents, but he is instead recruited into an elaborate plot to bring Mundt down. Adapted into a film starring Creator/RichardBurton as Leamas, with a TV adaptation by the people behind ''Series/TheNightManager'' planned. Both film and book are considered classics. Le Carré wrote it as a response to Creator/IanFleming.
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** ''The Looking Glass War'' ends with [[spoiler: Leiser abandoned in East Germany, either to be shot by the police or subjected to a show trial before execution, and the entire Department will either be laid off for their blunder or absorbed into The Circus in low-echelon positions]].
** In ''A Small Town in Germany,'' Turner realizes that Harting [[spoiler: disappeared because he has evidence that Karlfeld, the prominent politician running for office, participated in Nazi war crimes. Turner intuits that Harting intends to assassinate Karlfeld at an upcoming rally. As Turner searches the crowd, Karlfeld delivers a pro-Nazi speech that culminates in Harting missing his shot. Karlfeld's men kill him and ostensibly retrieve the evidence, with the implication that Karlfeld will win the election]].
** In ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,'' Smiley exposes the mole as [[spoiler: Bill Haydon]] and intends to trade him for several spies Moscow Centre has been keeping as hostages, but [[spoiler: Jim Prideaux murders him before they can initiate the swap, with Smiley implying Moscow will now simply kill the spies in revenge]].
** In ''The Honourable Schoolboy,'' Jerry Westerby [[spoiler: betrays The Circus in order to protect Elizabeth from a potential reprisal for her involvement with the Ko Brothers, but the CIA and Circus find out and assassinate him. Westerby's warning turns out to be for naught because the CIA intercepts the Kos and abduct Nelson, then freeze the Circus out of interrogations due to Westerby's blunder.]] Possibly mildly subverted if Guillam's supposition that [[spoiler: Smiley let things go so wrong in order to get himself fired, which he is]].
** In ''Smiley's People,'' Smiley [[spoiler: finally convinces Karla to turn himself in by using Karla's mentally ill daughter as a bargaining chip in negotiations. A major threat to the West has been eliminated, but Smiley feels he lost the moral vicory by sinking as low as Karla, and takes no joy in his victory]].
** In ''The Little Drummer Girl,'' [[spoiler: Charlie survives the operation and the assassins responsible for killing civilians in Europe have all been identified and killed. Charlie has also come to see that both sides of the Israel/Palestinian conflict are just as ruthless as one another and suffers a nervous breakdown after seeing Khalil die and learning all the people she befriended in Palestine died in a bombing, sinking into alcoholism and depression.]]
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** ''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'' really plays with this. Fiedler is a ruthless spymaster with a reputation for casually killing anyone who gets in his way. He's also a Jewish Holocaust survivor who's the sole non-Aryan in the Stasi, and who constantly feels at risk from his ostensible allies. Once Leamas meets him he realizes that they're more alike than he ever realized and that Fiedler is just as much a helpless cog in the espionage machine as he is.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Beyond a brief introductory paragraph in the first book, virtually nothing is known of Smiley's childhood, family, or wartime service. We'll get occasional hints as to his past that are so few and far between they can be jarring and ask more questions than they answer, such as a line in Smiley's People that he spent part of his childhood in Germany's Black Forest.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Toby Esterhaze is a con-man who deals in counterfeit art and lives in the dry cleaning shop he owns. He's also one of the Circus' top spies and the head of their domestic surveillance unit, The Lamplighters, who themselves are made up of an array of homeless people, families, and Eastern Europeans that live in a trailer camp in a hidden car park behind Esterhaze's dry cleaners. It speaks to Esterhaze's value that despite his role in [[spoiler: the Bill Haydon debacle, he's the only one who survives termination and is brought back for the subsequent books]]. When Smiley comes back for one final job in Smiley's People, Esterhaze is one of the few people he trusts to help with the assignment, despite Esterhaze's louche nature.
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* ConMan: Toby Esterhaze of the Circus, in ''The Secret Pilgrim'', convinces the CIA that an exiled Hungarian professor - a charlatan, completely worthless agent - is an anti-Communist hero, so that the Americans take him off the British hands and put him on their own payroll.
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* ConMan: Toby Esterhaze of the Circus, in Circus. It's implied multiple times that he has a side business dealing counterfeit art, which the Circus turns a blind eye to because he's such a good agent. In ''The Secret Pilgrim'', his final appearance, he convinces the CIA that an exiled Hungarian professor - a charlatan, completely worthless agent - is an anti-Communist hero, so that the Americans take him off the British hands and put him on their own payroll.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Le Carré uses his own made-up code names for various organisations in order to avoid revealing classified information. For example, the KGB is always referred to as "Moscow Centre" and MI-6 is referred to as "The Circus" because its headquarters is on Cambridge Circus. (In reality, it wasn't. He saw a building there that he thought would be a good HQ for the agency.)
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Le Carré uses his own made-up code names for various organisations in order to avoid revealing classified information. For example, the KGB is always referred to as "Moscow Centre" and MI-6 is referred to as "The Circus" because its headquarters is on Cambridge Circus. (In reality, it wasn't. He saw a building there that he thought would be a good HQ for the agency.)) The CIA are "The Cousins."
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* RetCon: Smiley loses about a decade or so off his age between ''Call for the Dead'' and ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.''
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* RetCon: Smiley loses about a decade or so off his age between ''Call for the Dead'' and ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.'''' Guillam also becomes a much younger protege of Smiley's as opposed to a contemporary. The same may hold true for ''A Legacy of Spies,'' unless Smiley is meant to be in his 100s.
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** There's further- and much more sound- speculation that Karla, the villain of the Smiley trilogy, was meant to be an analogue for Wolf. Both are high-ranked and ruthless spymasters who are beyond bribery and corruption. The one physical description we get of Karla even matches Wolf's real appearance. Many real-life spies have pointed out that the KGB was rife with corruption and many officers were flipped by Western intelligence simply by bribing them, while the Stasi were "true believers" and much more difficult to turn, keeping in line with le Carre's description of Karla and his team at Moscow Centre.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: In his introduction to "The Honourable Schoolboy," le Carre revealed that he intended the Smiley series to run beyond three books and feature the conflict with Karla and Moscow Centre reaching multiple corners of the globe. After le Carre went to an active war zone in Cambodia to research the book, though, he was so traumatized by his experience he realized how petty and meaningless the MI6/KGB conflict had become and decided to end it with his next book, ''Smiley's People.''
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** Within the Secret Service, the gentleman-spy types are disdainful of their less traditional colleagues: military men who were recruited for their distinguished service, Eastern European immigrants, women, and Jews. This becomes disastrous when [[spoiler:the blue-blooded Bill Haydon manages to run the Circus for years even though, as Smiley muses, everyone knew deep down that Bill was the traitor they'd been hunting]].
** One of the reasons for George and Ann Smiley's many marital ruptures is the awkwardness that their social discrepancy causes.
** One of the reasons for George and Ann Smiley's many marital ruptures is the awkwardness that their social discrepancy causes.
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** Within the Secret Service, the gentleman-spy types are disdainful of their less traditional colleagues: military men who were recruited for their distinguished service, Eastern European immigrants, women, and Jews. This becomes disastrous when [[spoiler:the blue-blooded Bill Haydon takes advantage of Control's prejudice against Scots to turn him against Percy Alleline, setting Control up to be fired when he launches a disastrous operation partially intended to humiliate Alleline. Haydon then manages to run the Circus for years even though, as Smiley muses, everyone knew deep down that Bill was the traitor they'd been hunting]].
hunting the whole time. They just couldn't admit that a member of their own social class could ever turn against them]].
** One of the reasons for George and Ann Smiley's many marital ruptures is the awkwardness that their social discrepancy causes. Ann comes from landed gentry (she's technically ''Lady'' Ann) while Smiley is decidedly lower-middle-class.
** One of the reasons for George and Ann Smiley's many marital ruptures is the awkwardness that their social discrepancy causes. Ann comes from landed gentry (she's technically ''Lady'' Ann) while Smiley is decidedly lower-middle-class.
** "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "The Honourable Schoolboy" feature Fawn, a bodyguard assigned to protect Smiley during his investigation, and whom Guillam muses is probably unhinged. We get confirmation of this when a boy on a bike tries to steal his watch while he's stopped at a traffic light. Fawn grabs hold of the boy when the light turns green and drags him for some distance with the car before stopping, getting out, and breaking both of his arms before a horrified Guillam.
** "The Scalphunters," the assassination branch of the Circus from which Fawn was drawn, is made up of lower-class and foreign-born spies who, when they're not on-duty, are kept as virtual prisoners in a building surrounded by barbed wire or broken glass for fear of them getting loose. Jim Prideaux, a former military man who saw action in WWII, is placed in charge of them because the Circus believes only someone who's seen brutal combat is capable of keeping them in line. When the decidedly less macho and inexperienced Peter Guillam is later placed in charge of them, he lives in a constant state of terror.
** "The Scalphunters," the assassination branch of the Circus from which Fawn was drawn, is made up of lower-class and foreign-born spies who, when they're not on-duty, are kept as virtual prisoners in a building surrounded by barbed wire or broken glass for fear of them getting loose. Jim Prideaux, a former military man who saw action in WWII, is placed in charge of them because the Circus believes only someone who's seen brutal combat is capable of keeping them in line. When the decidedly less macho and inexperienced Peter Guillam is later placed in charge of them, he lives in a constant state of terror.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:[[spoiler: ''A Legacy of Spies'' omits any mention of Guillam's marriage and unborn child.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:[[spoiler: WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Several, throughout the Smiley novels.
** [[spoiler: ''A Legacy of Spies'' omits any mention of Guillam's marriage and unborn child.]]]]
** A throwaway line in ''The Secret Pilgrim'' indicates [[spoiler: Percy Alleline]] has died sometime after the events of Tinker Tailor, but no further information is given.
** [[spoiler: Fawn]] totally vanishes from ''Smiley's People'' after having been a prominent supporting character in the previous two books in the trilogy.
** [[spoiler: ''A Legacy of Spies'' omits any mention of Guillam's marriage and unborn child.
** A throwaway line in ''The Secret Pilgrim'' indicates [[spoiler: Percy Alleline]] has died sometime after the events of Tinker Tailor, but no further information is given.
** [[spoiler: Fawn]] totally vanishes from ''Smiley's People'' after having been a prominent supporting character in the previous two books in the trilogy.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: Most of his books have at least a grain of true events in there, although Le Carré always said that people overstated his books' "authenticity." (On at least one occasion claiming that the real inspiration was the fantasy that the ''real'' spycraft must be being done at a level he had no access to.) Smiley is thought by some to be based on SIS chief Sir Maurice Oldfield, although Le Carré himself identified author and MI-5 officer John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, as Smiley's model.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: Most of his books have at least a grain of true events in there, although Le Carré always said that people overstated his books' "authenticity." (On at least one occasion claiming that the real his inspiration was the fantasy that the ''real'' spycraft must be being done at a level he had no access to.) Smiley is thought by some to be based on SIS chief Sir Maurice Oldfield, although Le Carré himself identified author and MI-5 officer John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, as Smiley's model.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: Most of his books have at least a grain of true events in there, although Le Carré always said that people overstated his books' "authenticity." Smiley is thought by some to be based on SIS chief Sir Maurice Oldfield, although Le Carré himself identified author and MI-5 officer John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, as Smiley's model.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: Most of his books have at least a grain of true events in there, although Le Carré always said that people overstated his books' "authenticity." (On at least one occasion claiming that the real inspiration was the fantasy that the ''real'' spycraft must be being done at a level he had no access to.) Smiley is thought by some to be based on SIS chief Sir Maurice Oldfield, although Le Carré himself identified author and MI-5 officer John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, as Smiley's model.
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* [[/index]]''A Murder of Quality'' (1962): Smiley takes a brief retirement and ends up investigating a murder at a[[UsefulNotes/BritishEducationSystem public school]]. Less a spy novel than [[OddballInTheSeries a classic British murder mystery]] featuring retired spies. Adapted as a TV movie in 1991 with Denholm Elliot as Smiley.
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* [[/index]]''A Murder of Quality'' (1962): Smiley takes a brief retirement and ends up investigating a murder at a[[UsefulNotes/BritishEducationSystem a [[UsefulNotes/BritishEducationSystem public school]]. Less a spy novel than [[OddballInTheSeries a classic British murder mystery]] featuring retired spies. Adapted as a TV movie in 1991 with Denholm Elliot as Smiley.
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* ''Literature/ASmallTownInGermany'' (1968): Set in the UsefulNotes/{{Bonn}} Republic, it deals with the disappearance of a German employee at the British embassy, a possible mole who's vanished along with a significant number of confidential files. Alan Turner, sent by Security to investigate, finds himself clashing with diplomats who are more concerned with keeping up appearances than actually finding the missing man. The story's set against a backdrop of delicate EEC negotiations and the rise of the Movement, a new far-right force in German politics, all of which aggravates the disagreements between Turner and his hosts.
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* ''Literature/ASmallTownInGermany'' (1968): Set in the UsefulNotes/{{Bonn}} Republic, [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany Bonn Republic]], it deals with the disappearance of a German employee at the British embassy, a possible mole who's vanished along with a significant number of confidential files. Alan Turner, sent by Security to investigate, finds himself clashing with diplomats who are more concerned with keeping up appearances than actually finding the missing man. The story's set against a backdrop of delicate EEC negotiations and the rise of the Movement, a new far-right force in German politics, all of which aggravates the disagreements between Turner and his hosts.
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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: He did this uncannily often.
** ''The Spy Who Came in From the Cold'' depicted the Stasi's inner workings so accurately that Markus Wolf, the Stasi's second-in-command, read the book obsessively for years, suspecting that Le Carré had somehow gotten insider's information about how the Stasi ran its operations.
** ''The Spy Who Came in From the Cold'' depicted the Stasi's inner workings so accurately that Markus Wolf, the Stasi's second-in-command, read the book obsessively for years, suspecting that Le Carré had somehow gotten insider's information about how the Stasi ran its operations.
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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: He did this uncannily often.
**often. ''The Spy Who Came in From the Cold'' depicted the Stasi's inner workings so accurately that Markus Wolf, the Stasi's second-in-command, read the book obsessively for years, suspecting that Le Carré had somehow gotten insider's information about how the Stasi ran its operations.
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* CommieNazis: These appear several times.
** Hans-Dieter Mundt, the antagonist of ''In from the Cold'', started his career in the Hitler Youth before joining East German intelligence. The East German jailer who appears towards the end denounces Jews in language that would fit right in at a Nuremberg rally.
** Hans-Dieter Mundt, the antagonist of ''In from the Cold'', started his career in the Hitler Youth before joining East German intelligence. The East German jailer who appears towards the end denounces Jews in language that would fit right in at a Nuremberg rally.
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Having just re-read A Small Town In Germany, I can't see any direct references to Karfeld and the Movement being backed by the USSR. If I somehow missed that, please reinstate (here, and on the book's own works page) and add a bit more context.
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** ''A Small Town in Germany'', published in 1969, is about a surging right-wing populist movement in West Germany that is seeking stronger ties with Moscow at the expense of unity with Western Europe. The movement is being supported by Russian intelligence as a ploy to destabilize Western Europe and to sow discord between Britain and the [[UsefulNotes/EuropeanUnion European Economic Community]]. While in reality it was the far ''left'' that surged in West Germany during the 1970s, fast forward 45 years and the story sounds very familiar.
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** In ''A Small Town in Germany'', Klaus Karfeld, a rising far-right West German politician, runs on his purportedly distinguished service at the Battle of Stalingrad, and tells his followers that Nazi Germany's crimes had been exaggerated by the British to justify the Allies' occupation of West Germany. His movement seeks closer ties to the Eastern Bloc and enjoys the Kremlin's covert support. [[spoiler:It turns out that Karfeld never even served at Stalingrad; he actually ran a concentration camp, and the USSR is concealing this in exchange for his loyalty]].
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* TheVerse: Some of his non-Smiley novels share characters in common. ''The Russia House'' and ''The Night Manager'' are unambiguously in the same continuity as the [[Literature/TheQuestForKarla Smiley]] stories, for instance, through the characters of Ned and Burr. Interestingly, it was done [[{{Retcon}} retroactively]] - there's no mention of familiar characters in ''The Russia House'', but ''The Secret Pilgrim'' [[ArcWelding reveals Ned first worked under Smiley]] and revealed how "the Fall" affected the Circus, even down to changing from the slighly whimsical nickname of "The Circus" to the more plain "Service".
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* [[/index]]''A Small Town in Germany'' (1968): Set in the UsefulNotes/{{Bonn}} Republic, it deals with the disappearance of a German employee at the British embassy, a possible mole who's vanished along with a significant number of confidential files. Alan Turner, sent by Security to investigate, finds himself clashing with diplomats who are more concerned with keeping up appearances than actually finding the missing man. The story's set against a backdrop of delicate EEC negotiations and the rise of the Movement, a new far-right force in German politics, all of which aggravates the disagreements between Turner and his hosts.
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* [[/index]]''A Small Town in Germany'' ''Literature/ASmallTownInGermany'' (1968): Set in the UsefulNotes/{{Bonn}} Republic, it deals with the disappearance of a German employee at the British embassy, a possible mole who's vanished along with a significant number of confidential files. Alan Turner, sent by Security to investigate, finds himself clashing with diplomats who are more concerned with keeping up appearances than actually finding the missing man. The story's set against a backdrop of delicate EEC negotiations and the rise of the Movement, a new far-right force in German politics, all of which aggravates the disagreements between Turner and his hosts.
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* [[/index]]''A Small Town in Germany'' (1968): Set in the UsefulNotes/{{Bonn}} Republic amidst the political rise of a right-wing populist with an anti-Western message and a shadowy Nazi past. Le Carré wrote it amidst then-widespread British fears that the German far right was making a comeback; today, it has the feel of an AlternateHistory novel.
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* [[/index]]''A Small Town in Germany'' (1968): Set in the UsefulNotes/{{Bonn}} Republic amidst Republic, it deals with the political disappearance of a German employee at the British embassy, a possible mole who's vanished along with a significant number of confidential files. Alan Turner, sent by Security to investigate, finds himself clashing with diplomats who are more concerned with keeping up appearances than actually finding the missing man. The story's set against a backdrop of delicate EEC negotiations and the rise of a right-wing populist with an anti-Western message and a shadowy Nazi past. Le Carré wrote it amidst then-widespread British fears that the Movement, a new far-right force in German far right was making a comeback; today, it has politics, all of which aggravates the feel of an AlternateHistory novel.disagreements between Turner and his hosts.
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* TheSociopath: Such characters appear again and again, sometimes working for Western intelligence, sometimes working against it, and sometimes as neutral actors. In particular, ''A Murder of Quality'' delves into sociopathy's nature, in the form of [[spoiler:both the victim and the murderer]].
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!!Le Carré's novels in general contain examples
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* ''Literature/CallForTheDead'' (1961): Introduces George Smiley and his agency, the Circus, along with future antagonist Hans-Dieter Mundt, an ex-Nazi now serving as a hitman for [[UsefulNotes/TheStasi]]. Adapted as ''The Deadly Affair'' (1966), with Creator/JamesMason.
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* ''Literature/CallForTheDead'' (1961): Introduces George Smiley and his agency, the Circus, along with future antagonist Hans-Dieter Mundt, an ex-Nazi now serving as a hitman for [[UsefulNotes/TheStasi]].the [[UsefulNotes/TheStasi Stasi]]. Adapted as ''The Deadly Affair'' (1966), with Creator/JamesMason.
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* ''Literature/CallForTheDead'' (1961): Introduces George Smiley and his agency, the Circus, along with future antagonist Hans-Dieter Mundt, an ex-Nazi now serving as a hitman for [[/index]]UsefulNotes/TheStasi[[index]]. Adapted as ''The Deadly Affair'' (1966), with [[/index]]Creator/JamesMason[[index]].
* ''A Murder of Quality'' (1962): Smiley takes a brief retirement and ends up investigating a murder at a [[/index]][[UsefulNotes/BritishEducationSystem public school]]. Less a spy novel than [[OddballInTheSeries a classic British murder mystery]] featuring retired spies. Adapted as a TV movie in 1991 with Denholm Elliot as Smiley.
* [[index]]''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' (1963): A direct sequel to ''Call for the Dead'' with a newly-promoted Mundt now the main antagonist. Alec Leamas, the head of the Circus's West Berlin station, is due to be discharged after Mundt kills most of his agents, but he is instead recruited into an elaborate plot to bring Mundt down. Adapted into a film starring [[/index]]Creator/RichardBurton as Leamas, with a TV adaptation by the people behind ''Series/TheNightManager'' planned. Both film and book are considered classics. Le Carré wrote it as a response to Creator/IanFleming. Its intended message to readers curious about the "secret world" was "DoNotDoThisCoolThing." %%in-universe context%%
* [[index]]''Literature/TheLookingGlassWar'' (1965): The Department, the Circus's less-successful rival, receives reports of missile buildup in East Germany, and dispatch their runner, John Avery, to investigate. Avery reactivates Fred Leiser, a retired agent in the midst of a midlife crisis, to serve as his eyes and ears behind the Iron Curtain. It was Le Carré's second attempt at "Do Not Do This Cool Thing" and is even more cynical than ''In From the Cold''. [[/index]]Adapted into a film featuring Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Avery.
* ''A Small Town in Germany'' (1968): Set in the UsefulNotes/{{Bonn}} Republic amidst the political rise of a right-wing populist with an anti-Western message and a shadowy Nazi past. Le Carré wrote it amidst then-widespread British fears that the German far right was making a comeback; today, it has the feel of an AlternateHistory novel.
* ''A Murder of Quality'' (1962): Smiley takes a brief retirement and ends up investigating a murder at a [[/index]][[UsefulNotes/BritishEducationSystem public school]]. Less a spy novel than [[OddballInTheSeries a classic British murder mystery]] featuring retired spies. Adapted as a TV movie in 1991 with Denholm Elliot as Smiley.
* [[index]]''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' (1963): A direct sequel to ''Call for the Dead'' with a newly-promoted Mundt now the main antagonist. Alec Leamas, the head of the Circus's West Berlin station, is due to be discharged after Mundt kills most of his agents, but he is instead recruited into an elaborate plot to bring Mundt down. Adapted into a film starring [[/index]]Creator/RichardBurton as Leamas, with a TV adaptation by the people behind ''Series/TheNightManager'' planned. Both film and book are considered classics. Le Carré wrote it as a response to Creator/IanFleming. Its intended message to readers curious about the "secret world" was "DoNotDoThisCoolThing." %%in-universe context%%
* [[index]]''Literature/TheLookingGlassWar'' (1965): The Department, the Circus's less-successful rival, receives reports of missile buildup in East Germany, and dispatch their runner, John Avery, to investigate. Avery reactivates Fred Leiser, a retired agent in the midst of a midlife crisis, to serve as his eyes and ears behind the Iron Curtain. It was Le Carré's second attempt at "Do Not Do This Cool Thing" and is even more cynical than ''In From the Cold''. [[/index]]Adapted into a film featuring Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Avery.
* ''A Small Town in Germany'' (1968): Set in the UsefulNotes/{{Bonn}} Republic amidst the political rise of a right-wing populist with an anti-Western message and a shadowy Nazi past. Le Carré wrote it amidst then-widespread British fears that the German far right was making a comeback; today, it has the feel of an AlternateHistory novel.
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* ''Literature/CallForTheDead'' (1961): Introduces George Smiley and his agency, the Circus, along with future antagonist Hans-Dieter Mundt, an ex-Nazi now serving as a hitman for [[/index]]UsefulNotes/TheStasi[[index]]. [[UsefulNotes/TheStasi]]. Adapted as ''The Deadly Affair'' (1966), with [[/index]]Creator/JamesMason[[index]].
Creator/JamesMason.
*''A [[/index]]''A Murder of Quality'' (1962): Smiley takes a brief retirement and ends up investigating a murder at a [[/index]][[UsefulNotes/BritishEducationSystem a[[UsefulNotes/BritishEducationSystem public school]]. Less a spy novel than [[OddballInTheSeries a classic British murder mystery]] featuring retired spies. Adapted as a TV movie in 1991 with Denholm Elliot as Smiley.
* [[index]]''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' (1963): A direct sequel to ''Call for the Dead'' with a newly-promoted Mundt now the main antagonist. Alec Leamas, the head of the Circus's West Berlin station, is due to be discharged after Mundt kills most of his agents, but he is instead recruited into an elaborate plot to bring Mundt down. Adapted into a film starring[[/index]]Creator/RichardBurton Creator/RichardBurton as Leamas, with a TV adaptation by the people behind ''Series/TheNightManager'' planned. Both film and book are considered classics. Le Carré wrote it as a response to Creator/IanFleming. Its intended message to readers curious about the "secret world" was "DoNotDoThisCoolThing." %%in-universe context%%
Creator/IanFleming.
*[[index]]''Literature/TheLookingGlassWar'' ''Literature/TheLookingGlassWar'' (1965): The Department, the Circus's less-successful rival, receives reports of missile buildup in East Germany, and dispatch their runner, John Avery, to investigate. Avery reactivates Fred Leiser, a retired agent in the midst of a midlife crisis, to serve as his eyes and ears behind the Iron Curtain. It was Le Carré's second attempt at "Do Not Do This Cool Thing" and is even more cynical than ''In From the Cold''. [[/index]]Adapted Adapted into a film featuring Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Avery.
*''A [[/index]]''A Small Town in Germany'' (1968): Set in the UsefulNotes/{{Bonn}} Republic amidst the political rise of a right-wing populist with an anti-Western message and a shadowy Nazi past. Le Carré wrote it amidst then-widespread British fears that the German far right was making a comeback; today, it has the feel of an AlternateHistory novel.
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* [[index]]''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' (1963): A direct sequel to ''Call for the Dead'' with a newly-promoted Mundt now the main antagonist. Alec Leamas, the head of the Circus's West Berlin station, is due to be discharged after Mundt kills most of his agents, but he is instead recruited into an elaborate plot to bring Mundt down. Adapted into a film starring
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* [[index]]''Literature/TheQuestForKarla''[[/index]] trilogy: ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'' (1974), ''The Honourable Schoolboy'' (1977) and ''Smiley's People'' (1979). The first and third were dramatised by Creator/TheBBC (the second, considering its setting--mid-1970s Southeast Asia--was harder to do, but a radio adaptation exists) and starred Creator/AlecGuinness as George Smiley. [[index]][[Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy A feature film]] of ''Tinker'' was released in 2011, starring [[/index]]Creator/GaryOldman as Smiley.
* [[index]]''Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl'' (1983): Le Carré leaves the [[/index]]UsefulNotes/ColdWar to focus on terrorism, mostly the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict. Le Carré strays from "Stale Beer," with sexy [[HoneyTrap honey traps]] (including the protagonist) and a TallDarkAndHandsome Israeli field agent who recruits said protagonist on Mykonos. Adapted into a film starring Diane Keaton, and a [[Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl much-better-received miniseries]] starring Creator/FlorencePugh, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard, and Creator/MichaelShannon.
* [[index]] ''Literature/APerfectSpy'' (1986): A semi-autobiographical novel, adapted into a miniseries by the BBC.
* ''Film/TheRussiaHouse'' (1989): Set in the crumbling USSR amidst Glasnost and Perestroika.[[/index]] Adapted into a film starring Creator/SeanConnery.
* ''The Secret Pilgrim'' (1990): Was long intended to be Smiley's farewell. A collection of reminiscences from Ned of ''The Russia House'', through the prism of Smiley giving lectures to new recruits. It ends with Smiley delivering an AuthorFilibuster about the promises and perils of the post-Cold War world.[[index]]
* ''Series/TheNightManager'' (1993): The first post-Cold War novel, and another departure from Stale Beer. A troubled veteran of [[/index]][[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Northern Ireland]] finds himself recruited to help British Intelligence take down a charming, amoral arms dealer. Adapted by the BBC in 2016 as a very expensive [[Series/TheNightManager six-part series]] starring Creator/HughLaurie and Creator/TomHiddleston. In mid-2021, Netflix reported that a second series is in pre-production.
* ''Our Game'' (1995): Le Carré's first foray into the newly-born Russian Federation, specifically the tumultuous North Caucasus.
* [[index]]''Film/TheTailorOfPanama''[[/index]] (1996): A semi-comical novel about a self-serving British agent in UsefulNotes/{{Panama}} just after the transfer of sovereignty over the Canal Zone. Written as a tribute to Creator/GrahamGreeneAuthor, specifically ''Our Man in Havana''. Adapted into a film starring Creator/PierceBrosnan.
* ''Single & Single'' (1999): Returns to post-Cold War Europe, this time to focus on money laundering.
* [[index]] ''Film/TheConstantGardener'' (2001): a British diplomat investigates his wife's murder in Kenya, and stumbles upon corruption in the pharmaceuticals industry. Adapted into a film [[/index]]starring Creator/RachelWeisz and Creator/RalphFiennes.
* ''Absolute Friends'' (2003): Le Carré's first novel dealing with the War on Terror.
* [[index]]''Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl'' (1983): Le Carré leaves the [[/index]]UsefulNotes/ColdWar to focus on terrorism, mostly the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict. Le Carré strays from "Stale Beer," with sexy [[HoneyTrap honey traps]] (including the protagonist) and a TallDarkAndHandsome Israeli field agent who recruits said protagonist on Mykonos. Adapted into a film starring Diane Keaton, and a [[Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl much-better-received miniseries]] starring Creator/FlorencePugh, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard, and Creator/MichaelShannon.
* [[index]] ''Literature/APerfectSpy'' (1986): A semi-autobiographical novel, adapted into a miniseries by the BBC.
* ''Film/TheRussiaHouse'' (1989): Set in the crumbling USSR amidst Glasnost and Perestroika.[[/index]] Adapted into a film starring Creator/SeanConnery.
* ''The Secret Pilgrim'' (1990): Was long intended to be Smiley's farewell. A collection of reminiscences from Ned of ''The Russia House'', through the prism of Smiley giving lectures to new recruits. It ends with Smiley delivering an AuthorFilibuster about the promises and perils of the post-Cold War world.[[index]]
* ''Series/TheNightManager'' (1993): The first post-Cold War novel, and another departure from Stale Beer. A troubled veteran of [[/index]][[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Northern Ireland]] finds himself recruited to help British Intelligence take down a charming, amoral arms dealer. Adapted by the BBC in 2016 as a very expensive [[Series/TheNightManager six-part series]] starring Creator/HughLaurie and Creator/TomHiddleston. In mid-2021, Netflix reported that a second series is in pre-production.
* ''Our Game'' (1995): Le Carré's first foray into the newly-born Russian Federation, specifically the tumultuous North Caucasus.
* [[index]]''Film/TheTailorOfPanama''[[/index]] (1996): A semi-comical novel about a self-serving British agent in UsefulNotes/{{Panama}} just after the transfer of sovereignty over the Canal Zone. Written as a tribute to Creator/GrahamGreeneAuthor, specifically ''Our Man in Havana''. Adapted into a film starring Creator/PierceBrosnan.
* ''Single & Single'' (1999): Returns to post-Cold War Europe, this time to focus on money laundering.
* [[index]] ''Film/TheConstantGardener'' (2001): a British diplomat investigates his wife's murder in Kenya, and stumbles upon corruption in the pharmaceuticals industry. Adapted into a film [[/index]]starring Creator/RachelWeisz and Creator/RalphFiennes.
* ''Absolute Friends'' (2003): Le Carré's first novel dealing with the War on Terror.
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* [[index]]''Literature/TheQuestForKarla''[[/index]] [[index]]''Literature/TheQuestForKarla'' trilogy: ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'' (1974), ''The Honourable Schoolboy'' (1977) and ''Smiley's People'' (1979). The first and third were dramatised by Creator/TheBBC (the second, considering its setting--mid-1970s Southeast Asia--was harder to do, but a radio adaptation exists) and starred Creator/AlecGuinness as George Smiley. [[index]][[Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy [[Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy A feature film]] of ''Tinker'' was released in 2011, starring [[/index]]Creator/GaryOldman Creator/GaryOldman as Smiley.
*[[index]]''Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl'' ''Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl'' (1983): Le Carré leaves the [[/index]]UsefulNotes/ColdWar UsefulNotes/ColdWar to focus on terrorism, mostly the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict. Le Carré strays from "Stale Beer," with sexy [[HoneyTrap honey traps]] (including the protagonist) and a TallDarkAndHandsome Israeli field agent who recruits said protagonist on Mykonos. Adapted into a film starring Diane Keaton, and a [[Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl much-better-received miniseries]] starring Creator/FlorencePugh, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard, and Creator/MichaelShannon.
*[[index]] ''Literature/APerfectSpy'' (1986): A semi-autobiographical novel, adapted into a miniseries by the BBC.
* ''Film/TheRussiaHouse'' (1989): Set in the crumbling USSR amidst Glasnost and Perestroika.[[/index]] Adapted into a film starring Creator/SeanConnery.
*''The [[/index]]''The Secret Pilgrim'' (1990): Was long intended to be Smiley's farewell. A collection of reminiscences from Ned of ''The Russia House'', through the prism of Smiley giving lectures to new recruits. It ends with Smiley delivering an AuthorFilibuster about the promises and perils of the post-Cold War world.[[index]]
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*''Series/TheNightManager'' [[index]]''Series/TheNightManager'' (1993): The first post-Cold War novel, and another departure from Stale Beer. A troubled veteran of [[/index]][[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Northern Ireland]] finds himself recruited to help British Intelligence take down a charming, amoral arms dealer. Adapted by the BBC in 2016 as a very expensive [[Series/TheNightManager six-part series]] starring Creator/HughLaurie and Creator/TomHiddleston. In mid-2021, Netflix reported that a second series is in pre-production.
*''Our [[/index]]''Our Game'' (1995): Le Carré's first foray into the newly-born Russian Federation, specifically the tumultuous North Caucasus.
*[[index]]''Film/TheTailorOfPanama''[[/index]] [[index]]''Film/TheTailorOfPanama'' (1996): A semi-comical novel about a self-serving British agent in UsefulNotes/{{Panama}} just after the transfer of sovereignty over the Canal Zone. Written as a tribute to Creator/GrahamGreeneAuthor, specifically ''Our Man in Havana''. Adapted into a film starring Creator/PierceBrosnan.
*''Single [[/index]]''Single & Single'' (1999): Returns to post-Cold War Europe, this time to focus on money laundering.
* [[index]] ''Film/TheConstantGardener'' (2001): a British diplomat investigates his wife's murder in Kenya, and stumbles upon corruption in the pharmaceuticals industry. Adapted into a film[[/index]]starring starring Creator/RachelWeisz and Creator/RalphFiennes.
*''Absolute [[/index]]''Absolute Friends'' (2003): Le Carré's first novel dealing with the War on Terror.
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* ''Film/TheRussiaHouse'' (1989): Set in the crumbling USSR amidst Glasnost and Perestroika.
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* [[index]] ''Film/TheConstantGardener'' (2001): a British diplomat investigates his wife's murder in Kenya, and stumbles upon corruption in the pharmaceuticals industry. Adapted into a film
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* DoubleAgent: Several.
* DownerEnding: In more than one case.
* FeedTheMole, FakeDefector... actually, most of the serious EspionageTropes appear somewhere in le Carré's novels.
* DownerEnding: In more than one case.
* FeedTheMole, FakeDefector... actually, most of the serious EspionageTropes appear somewhere in le Carré's novels.
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* KnowledgeBroker: Connie Sachs, an ex-spy.
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* SaidBookism
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Quite cynical.
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* TheSpymaster: "Control" and later Smiley himself.
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* TruthInTelevision: Again and again.
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* ''Call for the Dead'' (1961): Introduces George Smiley and his agency, the Circus, along with future antagonist Hans-Dieter Mundt, an ex-Nazi now serving as a hitman for [[/index]]UsefulNotes/TheStasi[[index]]. Adapted as ''The Deadly Affair'' (1966), with [[/index]]Creator/JamesMason[[index]].
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* ''Call for the Dead'' ''Literature/CallForTheDead'' (1961): Introduces George Smiley and his agency, the Circus, along with future antagonist Hans-Dieter Mundt, an ex-Nazi now serving as a hitman for [[/index]]UsefulNotes/TheStasi[[index]]. Adapted as ''The Deadly Affair'' (1966), with [[/index]]Creator/JamesMason[[index]].
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* [[index]]''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' (1963): A direct sequel to ''Call for the Dead'' with a newly-promoted Mundt now the main antagonist. Alec Leamas, the head of the West Berlin station of the Circus, is on the verge of being discharged after Mundt kills most of his agents, but he is instead recruited as part of an elaborate plot to bring Mundt down. Adapted into a film starring [[/index]]Creator/RichardBurton as Leamas, with a TV adaptation by the people behind ''Series/TheNightManager'' planned. Both film and book are considered classics. Le Carré wrote it as a response to Creator/IanFleming. Its intended message to readers curious about the "secret world" was "DoNotDoThisCoolThing." %%in-universe context%%
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* [[index]]''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' (1963): A direct sequel to ''Call for the Dead'' with a newly-promoted Mundt now the main antagonist. Alec Leamas, the head of the Circus's West Berlin station of the Circus, station, is on the verge of being due to be discharged after Mundt kills most of his agents, but he is instead recruited as part of into an elaborate plot to bring Mundt down. Adapted into a film starring [[/index]]Creator/RichardBurton as Leamas, with a TV adaptation by the people behind ''Series/TheNightManager'' planned. Both film and book are considered classics. Le Carré wrote it as a response to Creator/IanFleming. Its intended message to readers curious about the "secret world" was "DoNotDoThisCoolThing." %%in-universe context%%
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* ''A Small Town in Germany'' (1968): Set in the UsefulNotes/{{Bonn}} Republic amidst the political rise of a right-wing populist with an anti-Western message and a shadowy Nazi past. Le Carré wrote it out of fear that the German far right might make a comeback; today, it has the feel of an AlternateHistory novel.
* ''The Naïve and Sentimental Lover'' (1971): Le Carré's only non-spy novel.
* ''The Naïve and Sentimental Lover'' (1971): Le Carré's only non-spy novel.
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* ''A Small Town in Germany'' (1968): Set in the UsefulNotes/{{Bonn}} Republic amidst the political rise of a right-wing populist with an anti-Western message and a shadowy Nazi past. Le Carré wrote it out of fear amidst then-widespread British fears that the German far right might make was making a comeback; today, it has the feel of an AlternateHistory novel.
* ''The Naïve and Sentimental Lover'' (1971): Le Carré's only non-spynovel.novel, and his first semi-autobiographical one, about a love triangle.
* ''The Naïve and Sentimental Lover'' (1971): Le Carré's only non-spy
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* ''Call for the Dead'' (1961): Introduces George Smiley and his agency, the Circus, along with future antagonist Hans-Dieter Mundt, an ex-Nazi now serving as a hitman for UsefulNotes/TheStasi. Adapted as ''The Deadly Affair'' (1966), with Creator/JamesMason.
* ''A Murder of Quality'' (1962): Smiley takes a brief retirement and ends up investigating a murder at a [[UsefulNotes/BritishEducationSystem public school]]. Less a spy novel than [[OddballInTheSeries a classic British murder mystery]] featuring retired spies. Adapted as a TV movie in 1991 with Denholm Elliot as Smiley.
* ''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' (1963): A direct sequel to ''Call for the Dead'' with a newly-promoted Mundt now the main antagonist. Alec Leamas, the head of the West Berlin station of the Circus, is on the verge of being discharged after Mundt kills most of his agents, but he is instead recruited as part of an elaborate plot to bring Mundt down. Adapted into a film staring Creator/RichardBurton as Leamas, with a TV adaptation by the people behind ''Series/TheNightManager'' planned. Both film and book are considered classics. Le Carré wrote it as a response to Creator/IanFleming. Its intended message to readers curious about the "secret world" was "DoNotDoThisCoolThing." %%in-universe context%%
* ''The Looking-Glass War'' (1965): The Department, the Circus's less-successful rival, receives reports of missile buildup in East Germany, and dispatch their runner, John Avery, to investigate. Avery reactivates Fred Leiser, a retired agent in the midst of a midlife crisis, to serve as his eyes and ears behind the Iron Curtain. It was Le Carré's second attempt at "Do Not Do This Cool Thing" and is even more cynical than ''In From the Cold''. Adapted into a film featuring Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Avery.
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* ''Call for the Dead'' (1961): Introduces George Smiley and his agency, the Circus, along with future antagonist Hans-Dieter Mundt, an ex-Nazi now serving as a hitman for
* ''A Murder of Quality'' (1962): Smiley takes a brief retirement and ends up investigating a murder at a
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* ''Literature/TheQuestForKarla'' trilogy: ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'' (1974), ''The Honourable Schoolboy'' (1977) and ''Smiley's People'' (1979). The first and third were dramatised by Creator/TheBBC (the second, considering its setting--mid-1970s Southeast Asia--was harder to do, but a radio adaptation exists) and starred Creator/AlecGuinness as George Smiley. [[Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy A feature film]] of ''Tinker'' was released in 2011, starring Creator/GaryOldman as Smiley.
* ''Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl'' (1983): Le Carré leaves the UsefulNotes/ColdWar to focus on terrorism, mostly the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict. Le Carré strays from "Stale Beer," with sexy [[HoneyTrap honey traps]] (including the protagonist) and a TallDarkAndHandsome Israeli field agent who recruits said protagonist on Mykonos. Adapted into a film starring Diane Keaton, and a [[Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl much-better-received miniseries]] starring Creator/FlorencePugh, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard, and Creator/MichaelShannon.
* ''Literature/APerfectSpy'' (1986): A semi-autobiographical novel, adapted into a miniseries by the BBC.
* ''Film/TheRussiaHouse'' (1989): Set in the crumbling USSR amidst Glasnost and Perestroika. Adapted into a film starring Creator/SeanConnery.
* ''The Secret Pilgrim'' (1990): Was long intended to be Smiley's farewell. A collection of reminiscences from Ned of ''The Russia House'', through the prism of Smiley giving lectures to new recruits. It ends with Smiley delivering an AuthorFilibuster about the promises and perils of the post-Cold War world.
* ''Series/TheNightManager'' (1993): The first post-Cold War novel, and another departure from Stale Beer. A troubled veteran of [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Northern Ireland]] finds himself recruited to help British Intelligence take down a charming, amoral arms dealer. Adapted by the BBC in 2016 as a very expensive [[Series/TheNightManager six-part series]] starring Creator/HughLaurie and Creator/TomHiddleston. In mid-2021, Netflix reported that a second series is in pre-production.
* ''Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl'' (1983): Le Carré leaves the UsefulNotes/ColdWar to focus on terrorism, mostly the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict. Le Carré strays from "Stale Beer," with sexy [[HoneyTrap honey traps]] (including the protagonist) and a TallDarkAndHandsome Israeli field agent who recruits said protagonist on Mykonos. Adapted into a film starring Diane Keaton, and a [[Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl much-better-received miniseries]] starring Creator/FlorencePugh, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard, and Creator/MichaelShannon.
* ''Literature/APerfectSpy'' (1986): A semi-autobiographical novel, adapted into a miniseries by the BBC.
* ''Film/TheRussiaHouse'' (1989): Set in the crumbling USSR amidst Glasnost and Perestroika. Adapted into a film starring Creator/SeanConnery.
* ''The Secret Pilgrim'' (1990): Was long intended to be Smiley's farewell. A collection of reminiscences from Ned of ''The Russia House'', through the prism of Smiley giving lectures to new recruits. It ends with Smiley delivering an AuthorFilibuster about the promises and perils of the post-Cold War world.
* ''Series/TheNightManager'' (1993): The first post-Cold War novel, and another departure from Stale Beer. A troubled veteran of [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Northern Ireland]] finds himself recruited to help British Intelligence take down a charming, amoral arms dealer. Adapted by the BBC in 2016 as a very expensive [[Series/TheNightManager six-part series]] starring Creator/HughLaurie and Creator/TomHiddleston. In mid-2021, Netflix reported that a second series is in pre-production.
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* ''Literature/TheQuestForKarla'' [[index]]''Literature/TheQuestForKarla''[[/index]] trilogy: ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'' (1974), ''The Honourable Schoolboy'' (1977) and ''Smiley's People'' (1979). The first and third were dramatised by Creator/TheBBC (the second, considering its setting--mid-1970s Southeast Asia--was harder to do, but a radio adaptation exists) and starred Creator/AlecGuinness as George Smiley. [[Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy [[index]][[Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy A feature film]] of ''Tinker'' was released in 2011, starring Creator/GaryOldman [[/index]]Creator/GaryOldman as Smiley.
*''Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl'' [[index]]''Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl'' (1983): Le Carré leaves the UsefulNotes/ColdWar [[/index]]UsefulNotes/ColdWar to focus on terrorism, mostly the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict. Le Carré strays from "Stale Beer," with sexy [[HoneyTrap honey traps]] (including the protagonist) and a TallDarkAndHandsome Israeli field agent who recruits said protagonist on Mykonos. Adapted into a film starring Diane Keaton, and a [[Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl much-better-received miniseries]] starring Creator/FlorencePugh, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard, and Creator/MichaelShannon.
* *[[index]] ''Literature/APerfectSpy'' (1986): A semi-autobiographical novel, adapted into a miniseries by the BBC.
* ''Film/TheRussiaHouse'' (1989): Set in the crumbling USSR amidst Glasnost and Perestroika. [[/index]] Adapted into a film starring Creator/SeanConnery.
* ''The Secret Pilgrim'' (1990): Was long intended to be Smiley's farewell. A collection of reminiscences from Ned of ''The Russia House'', through the prism of Smiley giving lectures to new recruits. It ends with Smiley delivering an AuthorFilibuster about the promises and perils of the post-Cold Warworld.
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* ''Series/TheNightManager'' (1993): The first post-Cold War novel, and another departure from Stale Beer. A troubled veteran of[[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles [[/index]][[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Northern Ireland]] finds himself recruited to help British Intelligence take down a charming, amoral arms dealer. Adapted by the BBC in 2016 as a very expensive [[Series/TheNightManager six-part series]] starring Creator/HughLaurie and Creator/TomHiddleston. In mid-2021, Netflix reported that a second series is in pre-production.
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* ''Film/TheRussiaHouse'' (1989): Set in the crumbling USSR amidst Glasnost and Perestroika.
* ''The Secret Pilgrim'' (1990): Was long intended to be Smiley's farewell. A collection of reminiscences from Ned of ''The Russia House'', through the prism of Smiley giving lectures to new recruits. It ends with Smiley delivering an AuthorFilibuster about the promises and perils of the post-Cold War
* ''Series/TheNightManager'' (1993): The first post-Cold War novel, and another departure from Stale Beer. A troubled veteran of
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* ''Film/TheTailorOfPanama'' (1996): A semi-comical novel about a self-serving British agent in UsefulNotes/{{Panama}} just after the transfer of sovereignty over the Canal Zone. Written as a tribute to Creator/GrahamGreeneAuthor, specifically ''Our Man in Havana''. Adapted into a film starring Creator/PierceBrosnan.
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* ''Film/TheTailorOfPanama'' [[index]]''Film/TheTailorOfPanama''[[/index]] (1996): A semi-comical novel about a self-serving British agent in UsefulNotes/{{Panama}} just after the transfer of sovereignty over the Canal Zone. Written as a tribute to Creator/GrahamGreeneAuthor, specifically ''Our Man in Havana''. Adapted into a film starring Creator/PierceBrosnan.
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* ''Film/TheConstantGardener'' (2001): a British diplomat investigates his wife's murder in Kenya, and stumbles upon corruption in the pharmaceuticals industry. Adapted into a film starring Creator/RachelWeisz and Creator/RalphFiennes.
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