Read by Michael Jayston

[1962]
An unabridged reading by Michael Jayston of John le Carre's second Smiley novel.
George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction.
Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind
like a steel trap and is said to possess "the cunning of Satan and the conscience of
a virgin". This novel, set in the early 1960s, sees him investigating a murder in
a public school. When the wife of one of the masters is found bludgeoned to death,
Smiley, out of loyalty to an old friend, agrees to look into the case. But his
investigation raises a multitude of questions. Who could have hated Stella Rode enough
to kill her? Why was her dog put down shortly before the murder? And what did Mad Janie
see on that fatal night? To discover the truth, Smiley must lift the lid on a world of
hidden passions and dangerous hatreds...

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