Synopsis

John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him—and his hero, British Secret Service Agent George Smiley—unprecedented worldwide acclaim. In The Honourable Schoolboy, George Smiley is made ring leader of the Circus (the British Secret Service) in the wake of a demoralizing infiltration by a Soviet double agent. Devising a counterattack, Smiley thrusts his own hand-picked operative into action. His point of attack: the Far East—a burial ground of French, British, and American colonial cultures, and fabled testing ground of patriotic allegiances.

About the Author

John le Carré is the nom de plume of David John Moore Cornwell, who was born in 1931 in Poole, Dorset, and was educated at Sherborne School, at the University of Berne (where he studied German literature for a year) and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in modern languages. He taught at Eton from 1956 to 1958 and was a member of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 1964, serving first as Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Bonn and subsequently as Political Consul in Hamburg. He started writing novels in 1961, and since then has published nineteen titles.

Other works by le Carré include: Call For The Dead, A Murder of Quality, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, The Looking Glass War, A Small Town In Germany, The Naive and Sentimental Lover, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Smiley's People, The Little Drummer Girl, A Perfect Spy, The Russia House, The Secret Pilgrim, The Night Manager, Our Game, The Tailor of Panama, Single & Single, The Constant Gardener, , and Absolute Friends.

Condition

Very Good. Binding tight and square. Pages are tight and clean without crease or stain. No indication of soiling, scuffing, or wear. The condition of this beautiful volume would be, without equivocation, "Fine" with two exceptions: the previous owner's name is inscribed/stamped on the front and end papers, and there exists a small spot or area of discoloration (as may be seen in the photograph to the left) between the parallel decorative gilt lines which extend horizontally near the bottom of the front cover. Whether this flaw was the result of the manufacturing process, imperfect dying of the leather, or an external influence is unknown. Regardless of the causative agent, it exists.