The classic Cold War novel. Into a shadowy, violent and intricate world steeped in moral ambivalences steps George Smiley - tubby, perceptive and morally perplexed as ever - sometime acting Chief of the Circus, as the Secret Service is known. A Russian émigré woman is accosted in Paris in broad daylight by a Soviet intelligence officer. A scared Estonian boy plays courier in Hamburg. In London at the dead of night, George Smiley is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agen