Good news for Smiley watchers

To my infinite surprise and definite delight, I have discovered that the son of John le Carré, novelist  Nick Harkaway, has written a Smiley book!

[It is called] Karla’s Choice, a novel revolving around the celebrated mole hunter George Smiley and his enemy, the Soviet spymaster of the title. Set in 1963, it occupies the gap in the fictional chronology between The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and the trilogy of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley’s People, all published in the 1970s. As well as Smiley and Karla themselves, a host of figures from le Carré’s novels and their TV and film adaptations are there: Peter Guillam, Bill Haydon, Toby Esterhase, Connie Sachs and Control, the Circus chief whom Harkaway thinks of as “a monster – a spider in the web”.

Read about it here. There is an extract of the book available at the moment here.

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