Smiley's People
Ratings24
Average rating4.4
15
Added to listAuthor John Le Carre
Added to listFic Cold War
Added to listFic Espionage
Added to listOwned
Reviewed
For my money, this is the best of the so-called Karla trilogy. Tight plotting, tension, extraordinarily well-depicted characters, superlative writing, and at the very end... Karla, Smiley's mythical, remote, ruthless nemesis, suddenly exposed, frail and very human.
A masterpiece in all senses of the word.