3rd printing…1981 Le Carré’s world, famous hero, undercover agent, George Smiley emerges from retirement to solve a baffling bloody crime. He becomes an entangled with a woman as dangerous as she is charming, and a tottering brilliant man haunted by a perverse secret of his past. Smiley pursues the murderer, amid the hollow pump and ceremony of the Establishment where a man’s fate is decided over tea and a sentence of death can be passed out with biscuits and sherry.