Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, spy

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Call Number: BOCD Mystery, Adult BOCD / Fiction / Thriller / Le Carre, John
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD Mystery	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / Thriller / Le Carre, John	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Read by Michael Jayston.
When his handler is accused of treason, British spy George Smiley is also dismissed from his agency. To clear his name and prove his loyalty, Smiley takes a job from Oliver Lacon, the Permanent Undersecretary to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, in an attempt to identify and capture the real traitor.

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intriguing tradecraft submitted by camelsamba on August 3, 2017, 9:27pm Summary elsewhere: "It is now beyond a doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed."

This is a great spy story, full of interesting characters and "tradecraft." When I finished listening, I started it back up again - not necessarily because I thought it was riveting, but because I suspected I had missed some important bits the first time through. (I have a tendency to listen inattentively while doing other things.) And sure enough, even in the first chapter or two there were aha moments. I wish I had noticed that the library also owns a version read by Frank Muller, because I suspect I would have preferred his rendition.