Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | Characters
The central character of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, its two related stories, The Honorable Schoolboy (1977) and Smiley's People (1980), and a minor figure in Call for the Dead (1961), Murder of Quality (1962), and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963; see separate entry), is George Smiley. Smiley is not the typical spy. He is middle-aged, tired, lives in a London suburb, and is constantly cuckolded by his attractive wife, Ann. Michael Wood, in an article for the New York Times Book Review, describes him and other le Carre spies as...
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