Call for the Dead is John le Carré's first novel, published in 1961. It introduces George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in a story about East German spies inside Great Britain. It also introduces a fictional version of British Intelligence, called "the Circus" because of its …
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Call for the Dead is John le Carré's first novel, published in 1961. It introduces George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in a story about East German spies inside Great Britain. It also introduces a fictional version of British Intelligence, called "the Circus" because of its location in Cambridge Circus, which is apparently based on MI6 and recurs throughout le Carré's spy novels. Call for the Dead was adapted for film as The Deadly Affair (1966).
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Call for the Dead
144 pages
English language
Published Jan. 29, 2002
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- 978-0-7434-3167-5Copied ISBN!
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- 46460
Call for the Dead
157 pages
English language
Published Oct. 2, 2012 by Penguin Books.
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- 978-0-14-312257-9Copied ISBN!
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- 13542506
Schatten von gestern
German language
Published 2019 by Ullstein Verlag.
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- 978-3-548-06164-1Copied ISBN!
Call for the Dead
171 pages
English language
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- 978-1-101-60375-8Copied ISBN!
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- 18715700
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