John Le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Smiley’s Reckoning
By David Cranmer
March 2, 2015In 1974’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, we finally have an account of George Smiley as a full-fledged intelligence officer after thirteen years on the scene. In the first two novels of the series—Call for the Dead (1961) and A Murder of Quality (1962)—Smiley functioned more as detective that could have easily fit into a G.K.…