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      Call for the Dead

      by John Le Carre
      Published
      Aug 1962
      Main Genre
      Espionage / Spies / CIA Espionage
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      George Smiley Book 1

      About This Book

      The world-famous undercover operative, George Smiley, is bitter, weary--he has seen too much and done too much--yet he cannot refuse one last desperate call for his services.

      Smiley returns to solve a baffling case involving a suspect British civil servant, a brilliant, twisted former hero of the German underground; a high-ranking pompous fool of a bureaucrat -- and a once-beautiful woman with a terrifying secret.

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      Action Adventure Espionage / Spies / CIA Mystery Thriller

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