Animal Motifs: Horses come up quite frequently in The Honourable Schoolboy. The Alleged Plane: Jerry Westerby has to take a nail-biting flight in a tattered, rusty, and practically collapsing plane in The Honourable Schoolboy. In particular, Control's fate starts looking like Laser-Guided Karma. All There in the Manual: Some of the events of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy come across much, much differently if you've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Looking Glass War. The Alcoholic: Connie Sachs, most notably. It's hard not to shed a tear when the CIA grab Nelson away from him, just moments after finally getting to see him again. But at the end of the day, all he really wanted to do was bring his little brother home safely. Sure, the guy was involved in a long line of violent crimes and dodgy businesses over the years, and his mission was quite hostile to Smiley's interests. Both he and Karla uses each other's weaknesses again each other with Smiley being more successful. Achilles' Heel: Karla has one in the form of his love for his daughter, and Smiley has Ann, his wife, though he overcomes this by the end of the series. As he only speaks broken English, he doesn't realize that it sounds like a pun on "horse rider". In every subsequent encounter, he calls him "horse-writer". Accidental Pun: In The Honourable Schoolboy, Jerry Westerby first meets Drake Ko's bodyguard Tiu while posing as a journalist at a racetrack where one of Ko's horses is competing. For the 2011 film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley, see here. These are:įor the BAFTA-winning television adaptations of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People note The Honourable Schoolboy was skipped due to budget constraints, starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley and Patrick Stewart as Karla, see here. 
The series consists of three books published between 19. Dealing with betrayal, love and the often mundane nature of spying, it asks awkward and painful questions about keeping secrets from your friends, lovers and indeed yourself. They're part of a longer, loosely-knit series of books featuring British Intelligence officer George Smiley, with the trilogy covering his long battle with Russian spymaster Karla.
One of the finest spy trilogies of all time, John le Carré's The Quest for Karla (otherwise known as Smiley Versus Karla) are three spy novels set during the Cold War.
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