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The Honourable Schoolboy

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book | Fiction | 1977
UK → Hodder and Stoughton

George Smiley has become chief of the battered British Secret Service. The betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network. Smiley wants revenge.

He chooses his weapon: Jerry Westerby, ‘The Honourable Schoolboy’, a passionate lover and a seasoned, reckless secret agent. Westerby is pointed east, to Hong Kong. So begins the terrifying game...

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Reviews

Energy, compassion, rich and overwhelming sweep of character and action . . . one of the finest English novels of the seventies
The Times

His command of detail is staggering, his straightforward, unaffected prose is superb. In short, wonderful value
The Sunday Times

Simply the world’s greatest fictional spymaster
Newsweek

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