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The Honourable Schoolboy
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George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'. Smiley, now head of the Circus, must rebuild trust in the shattered organisation. He is also determined to destroy his nemesis, Karla, and his spy networks. He recruits Jerry Westerby, occasional spy, occasional news reporter, full-time romantic - the Honourable Schoolboy of the title - and despatches him to the Far East, where, amidst the corruption and decay of former colonies, a new battle is about to begin... Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a star cast including Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Steed and Anna Chancellor, this gripping dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carré's intricate, intriguing novel, the second in the Karla trilogy.
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Unabridged
Street Date:
02/11/2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781408439913
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John le Carré. (2010). The Honourable Schoolboy. Unabridged BBC Audio.

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John le Carré. 2010. The Honourable Schoolboy. BBC Audio.

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John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy. BBC Audio, 2010.

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John le Carré. The Honourable Schoolboy. Unabridged BBC Audio, 2010.

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      • content: Can heartbreak and spy craft exist side by side? Of course they can, in the BBC's penetrating full-cast adaptation of the 1977 sequel to TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY. The time is the end of the Vietnam War, and duplicity and double agents have devastated George Smiley's Circus. Something has to be done to get the group back on its feet. Smiley, played by Simon Russell Beale, plots to trap his Russian nemesis, Karla, with a plan that involves employing a seldom-used Far East agent. Each vocal performance, especially Hugh Bonneville's turn as the "schoolboy" Jerry Westerby, is so naturalistic and so convincing that the listener will ache at the damage that can be wrought when love, betrayal, and expedience become the deadliest weapons in the spy game. B.P. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
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