Call for the Dead

by John le Carré

First published 1961 · 160 pages

About this book

Le Carre's first book which introduces George Smiley. Smiley investigates the apparent suicide of Samuel Fennan, who worked in the Foreign Office and had been under investigation due to his communist background at Oxford.

  • Fiction
  • Cold War
  • George Smiley (Fictitious character)
  • Intelligence officers
  • English language
  • Readers
  • Large type books
  • Fiction, thrillers, espionage

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