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  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Other George Smiley Stories

  • Written by: John le Carré
  • Narrated by: John le Carré
  • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Other George Smiley Stories

Written by: John le Carré
Narrated by: John le Carré
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Publisher's Summary

Call for the Dead (Abridged): George Smiley had liked the man and now the man was dead. But why? Fennan was dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn’t go on. Smiley decides to investigate—only to uncover a murderous conspiracy with its roots in his own secret wartime past.

A Murder of Quality (Abridged): Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband is trying to kill her. Reluctant to go to the police, Miss Brimley calls upon her old wartime colleague, George Smiley. Unfortunately, it's too late. Mrs Rode has just been murdered. To discover the truth, Smiley must lift the lid on a world of hidden passions and dangerous hatreds....

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Abridged): In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin Wall, Alec Leamas watches as his last agent is shot dead by East German sentries. For Leamas, the head of Berlin Station, the Cold War is over. As he faces the prospect of retirement or worse—a desk job—Control offers him a unique opportunity for revenge.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Abridged): The man he knew as 'Control' is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement—especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with a shocking accusation: a Soviet mole has penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence.

Smiley's People (Abridged): George Smiley was summoned from his dubious retirement by two seemingly unconnected events—an old woman in Paris is promised the return of a daughter she will never see, and a handover is to take place on a steamer in Hamburg.

©1962 David Cornwell / © 1962 le Carré Productions. (P)2022 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

What the critics say

"An enormously skilled and satisfying work." (Newsweek)

"John le Carré is the great master of the spy story...the constant flow of emotion lifts him above most novelists now practising." (The Financial Times)

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The horrible sound quality starting in chapter 8

Several chapters worth of distorted sound, up and down in volume. I will be asking for my money back. It’s a shame because I am a fan of these novels. The author makes the perfect narrator.

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Abridged version

Tinker Tailor Spy and Soldier is one the the greatest spy novels ever written. This abridged version has made it sounds so average because it is missing so much good stuff from the original novel.

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