哈瑞本是个混迹伦敦的骗子，辗转来到巴拿马后，凭着过去所学成为裁缝。因为深谙聆听闭嘴的重要，颇得上流社会主顾的信赖。原本以为就这样可以抹掉不为人知的过去，没想到，在一个最平常不过的星期五，一个从地狱来的客人找上门，让他打探巴拿马运河主权易手前夕的各方动静。为了自保，哈瑞开始编故事……
他能量巨大，上得总统办公室，下得反对派囚牢。给总统试装，他可以聆听连政府发言人都不知晓的元首真心话，从过去的狱友那里，他大胆判断巴拿马正酝酿着一场大风暴。这位敏锐的小道消息收集员，出色的八卦分析家兼传播大师，将会导演出怎样惊心动魄的未来？

Murder of Quality John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international esionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him -- and his hero, British secret Service Agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, and old friend and editor of a small newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried reader: "I'm not mad. And I know my husbad is trying to kill me." But the letter had arrived too late: it's scribe, the wife of an assistant master at the distinguished Carne School, was already dead. So George Smiley went to Carne to listen, ask questions, and think. And to uncover, layer by layer, the complex network of skeletons and hatreds that comprised that little English institution. Call for the Dead It was less an interview than an amiable conversation over a walk in the park. George Smiley had been sent to speak to a high-ranking civil servant after an anonymous tip-off that he was a security risk. It was a formality -- and the two men liked each other. Why then, did it apparently drive the poor man to despair? And why was he found dead the next day, the victim of an unnecessary suicide? Call for the Dead launched John le Carré's unparalleled career as a novelist, and introduces one of fiction's most famous spies -- George Smiley, who is both brilliant and unremarkable.

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Alec Leamas, a British spy, is worn out and ready to stop working. But his boss wants him to do one final job: to spread false information about an important man in East Germany. Can Alec end his career and finally come in from the cold?

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