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      Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

      by John Le Carre
      Published
      Jan 1974
      Main Genre
      Espionage / Spies / CIA Espionage
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      381
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      George Smiley Book 5

      About This Book

      A modern masterpiece, TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet equivalent, as he's assigned to identify and destroy the double agent--a mole--who has burrowed his way into the top echelons of British Intelligence Headquarters.

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