Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (George Smiley #5)

Title: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (George Smiley #5)
ISBN: 9780340993767
Author: John Le Carré
Rating: ⭐ 4.06 (857 ratings, reviews)

Alternate cover edition can be found here. A modern masterpiece in which le Carre expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart.It is now beyond doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed.