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title: "Smiley's People: George Smiley Novels, Book 7"
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# Smiley's People: George Smiley Novels, Book 7

**Brand:** john le carré
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Smiley's People: George Smiley Novels, Book 7

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    The essential George Smiley
  

*by W***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2022*

I’ve just reread my way through the Smiley novels and am more convinced than ever of Le Carre’s preeminence among writers in English.A deep understanding of human character, both warmly compassionate and brutally honest, informs everything he’s done, and nowhere more effectively than this elegy, and I think that’s what it is, for the cold warrior George Smiley, and for the Cold War of my coming-of-age.Of course, that war is still with us, because, as Le Carre reminds us, that is how humans amuse ourselves, trying to find some kind of solace in a world where one can not really escape one’s own (or anyone else’s) struggle for agency, for safety, for power, for protection, for peace.Smiley, watching Karla cross the bridge, in his moment of triumph, comes face to face (again) with the reality of compromise, and the futility of the knight’s quest.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Incredibly addictive author
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 9, 2012*

How does an average, normal reader even begin to critique (review) the work of le Carré? The Karla Trilogy (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Honorable Schoolboy: Smiley's People) is a series that I have had to reread on almost an annual basis since first discovering George Smiley in "Call for the Dead" ([...]) in the 1960's. I have even "enticed and corrupted" both my sons, one an Art Professor, the other a Diplomat, in my addiction and they too own and reread the books and have copies of the BBC series to watch. I shamelessly refuse to apologize for my enticement of them, or even perhaps, you the reader of this presumptuous review of such a masterwork.They are, after all, only fiction, just a series of `novels'? (Which are generally considered essentially trivial - an idea against which even Jane Austen's own strictures have had no effect). But so addictive is John le Carré's skill that even a vast general TV viewing public became so engrossed in a serialized BBC's series of one of his works that they brought the British nation to a standstill for each of the hour-long adaptions that were broadcast.Pure fascinating reading that evokes both characters and atmospheres so strongly they engage the reader and entice them to continue to read each and every one of his works. A craftsmanship based on real experience - in the British Secret Service - that adds such value to his inventions that they become a reality. The TV adaptation featured Sir Alec Guinness as the main character, George Smiley, dour, donnish master spy and charismatic leader. His portrayal was masterly, and therein lay a poisonous problem ... after the trilogy became both best-selling books, serialized television, and films; the author `killed off' (like Conan Doyle with Holmes, and Nicolas Freeling with Van der Valk) both the George Smiley, the circus, and all future Smiley's people by totally dropping him from his repertoire and changing his subjects to further and even more modern fields. In an interview the author explained his motivation for disappointing and stunning his loyal readership..."... the problem was ,whether I liked it or not by the time (Sir) Alec Guinness finished with him he was George Smiley - voice, mannerisms, looks - and by the time he had finished with my character I had been given back used goods. On the other hand, I didn't at all enjoy the fact that Smiley had somehow been taken over by my public..."Do read this wonderful series ... but your appreciation and enjoyment might also become as embittered as the rest of us disappointed fans at the disappearance of these fascinating characters and the intellectual twists of John le Carré's Smiley's people in their Cold War circus.(This review is my attempt for the whole of the "Karla" series.)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    George Smiley finds his people
  

*by K***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 28, 2021*

Although hes been retired and nearly forgotten Smiley can't let go of his past.  He's seen victory, ineptitude, treachery and failure. His old  "Circus" is in a spin and Smiley is completely out of it until a mysterious call  comes through to the "Circus" from a man known as the General asking for Smiley. The General is an old spy who, in the eyes of  the remaining people at the "Circus," has  long been put to pasture.  But Smiley hasn't forgotten his reliable and faithful spy. When Smiley learns of the call with it's cryptic message and discovers  that the General has been killed he goes to work, suspecting the call could lead to the  location and ultimate defeat of Smiley's nemesis from the other side.  One by one Smiley reels in evidence from talks with his people and from dusty forgotten files that lead to a mesmerizing, bittersweet climax."Smiley's People"  completes another solid chapter of the international spy game that only Le Carre could pull off. He's a master.

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