Call for the Dead (George Smiley #1)
Author: John le Carré
Desc: John le Carré classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero British Secret Service Agent George Smiley who is introduced in this his first novel -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. George Smiley had liked Samuel Fennan and now Fennan was dead from an apparent suicide. But why? Fennan a Foreign Office man had been under investigation for alleged Communist Party activities but Smiley had made it clear that the investigation -- little more than a routine security check -- was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed. The very next day Fennan was found dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn't go on. Smiley was puzzled...