Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Author:John La Carre John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service Agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. A modern masterpiece, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's c... more »hess 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.« less