Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Book Characters
Tinker tailor soldier spy character profiles.
Tinker tailor soldier spy book characters. A modern classic in which john le carré 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. The book is a part of what is knows as the karla trilogy. Tinker tailor soldier spy 2011 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more. Although he is living partly on a pension he is financially secure.
Karla uses his handler alexei polyakov to deliver fabricated intelligence that appears highly valuable. When tinker tailor soldier spy came out in 1974 revelations exposing the presence of soviet double agents in britain were still fresh in public memory. Smiley is a career intelligence officer with the circus the british overseas intelligence agency. He is a central character in the novels call for the dead a murder of quality tinker tailor soldier spy the honourable schoolboy and smiley s people and a supporting character in the spy who came in from the cold the looking glass war the secret pilgrim and a legacy of spies.
The central character george smiley the master spy brought back from his enforced retirement journeys. He had been educated at oxford and had worked at the circus which was british intelligence. He has a keenly analytical mind and he almost never. Tinker tailor soldier spy stars gary oldman tom hardy colin firth mark strong and toby jones.
By the time of the novel the mole bill haydon has become the circus number two man. George smiley the central character of tinker tailor soldier spy and many other john le carré novels is a careful methodical man. George smiley is a middle aged man who is separated from his wife ann. Guy burgess donald maclean john cairncross and kim philby later known as members of the cambridge five had been exposed as kgb moles.
Smiley has had a successfule career in intelligence. Almost every page is packed with suspense and action. Tinker tailor soldier spy is one of a series of books about the soviet master spy karla who has made a career of making life difficult for the british. It is a thrilling book that is hard for the reader to put down.
George smiley obe is a fictional character created by john le carré.