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A Murder of Quality
One day Miss Ailsa Brimley, editor of a small English newspaper, receives plea for help and advice from a subscriber which intimates that the letter w...

A Perfect Spy
Magnus Pym, a British intelligence agent, has disappeared after his father's funeral. His agency, tries to cover up the fact that he is missing, ...

A Small Town in Germany
It is the early 1970s in Bonn, the small and provincial capital of West Germany. A very minor bureaucrat in the British Embassy named Leo Harting has ...

Absolute Friends
Ted Mundy, son of a disgraced Indian Army Major becomes involved with left wing student activists while attending university in Berlin during the late...

Call for the Dead
By the late 1950s, veteran British Secret Service agent George Smiley does mostly quiet work back in England. Two days after he conducts a routine sec...

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Our Game
We all, lovers of John Le Carre's spy thrillers thought that the collapse of the Soviet empire, end of cold-war, and emergence of a unipolar world, wi...



Single & Single
A search for a banker tied up with drug dealers....

Smiley's People
Information falls into the hands of Britains MI-5 (counterintel) that a spymaster for the KGB, codename KARLA, has a mentally ill daughter, secreted i...

The Constant Gardener
Tessa Quayle, an activist and wife of mid-level diplomat Justin, has been found raped and murdered in the upcountry bush of Kenya along with her drive...

The Little Drummer Girl
The story opens in an affluent Bad Godesberg a suburb of Bonn, in Germany, with an explosion that tears apart an Israeli diplomat's house. Thinly disg...

The Looking Glass War
It is the early 1960s. British military intelligence sent Taylor over to Finland to pick up a roll of film that was shot over a suspicious area of Eas...

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The Mission Song
Bruno Salvador is an interpreter of Swahili and other African languages such as Kinyarwanda, the language of Rwanda, and Shi, the language of the east...

The Russia House
Barley Blair a bumbling stumbling literary agent, receives classified information at a Moscow book fair. The classified info is from a "super" scient...

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
The Berlin office under Leamas has not been doing well. One of their best double agents, Karl Riemeck, was gunned down at the border, probably on the ...

The Tailor of Panama
Harry Pendel is tailor to the rich and famous of Panama; his skills are renowned. Few know that they were gained from spending some quality time in a ...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Another great masterpiece from the master of spy stories. This too is a George Smiley's story. British Government receives a sudden jolt when they ...

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