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John le Carré classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service Agent George Smiley, who's released in this, his first book -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. George smiley had preferred Samuel Fennan, and today Fennan was dead from an apparent suicide. But why? Fennan, a Foreign Office man, had been under investigation for alleged Communist Party actions, but Smiley had managed to get clear that the investigation -- a bit more than the usual routine safety check -- was around and that the document on Fennan might be shut.