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John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and understanding and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unparalleled global acclaim.Rounding off his amazing perspective of the covert world, learn storyteller le Carre perfects his artwork in "Smiley's People."In London at dead of night, George Smiley, someday operating Chief of the Show (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonesome sleep by information of the killing of an ex-agent. Attracted back once again to active support, Smiley well moves his folks -- "the no-men of no-man's land" -- into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland as he makes for their own ultimate, expected duel about the Berlin edge together with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla.