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Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard. * Sunday Telegraph *
Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense. * Observer *
The greatest spy novelist of all time ... astounding works of the imagination. -- Jake Kerridge * Daily Telegraph *
Brilliant, popular, intelligent, thrilling, suspenseful, angry, original, masterful writing. Can't be topped. -- Armando Iannucci
An extraordinary writer who brought literary lustre and lived insight to the spy yarn. -- Ian Rankin
One of those writers who will be read a century from now. -- Robert Harris
His Smiley novels are key to understanding the mid-20th century. -- Margaret Atwood
What Joseph Conrad started, John le Carré enshrined and made modern. That is the real achievement of his great novels and why they will endure ... we should see him as our contemporary Dickens. -- William Boyd * New Statesman *

Call for the Dead

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    A Paperback / softback by John le Carré

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 27 February 2020
      ISBN-13 9780241330876
      978-0241330876
      ISBN-10 0241330874

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard. * Sunday Telegraph *
      Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense. * Observer *
      The greatest spy novelist of all time ... astounding works of the imagination. -- Jake Kerridge * Daily Telegraph *
      Brilliant, popular, intelligent, thrilling, suspenseful, angry, original, masterful writing. Can't be topped. -- Armando Iannucci
      An extraordinary writer who brought literary lustre and lived insight to the spy yarn. -- Ian Rankin
      One of those writers who will be read a century from now. -- Robert Harris
      His Smiley novels are key to understanding the mid-20th century. -- Margaret Atwood
      What Joseph Conrad started, John le Carré enshrined and made modern. That is the real achievement of his great novels and why they will endure ... we should see him as our contemporary Dickens. -- William Boyd * New Statesman *

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