John le Carré (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
Principal Series
George Smiley, 1961-1980.
Principal Series Character
George Smiley is a master spy and holder of various official and unofficial posts in Great Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service; he is separated from his unfaithful wife. Middle-aged, short, plump, and bespectacled, the waddling, owlish, Pickwickian Smiley is a most unlikely hero. Vaguely idealistic, he lives for his work.
Contribution
John le Carré began writing espionage
novels in the early 1960’s, when the major figure in the field was [The entire page is 4000 words long]
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