Guinness played the same colorless spy chief in each. It was that dogged gray bureaucrat of British espionage, George Smiley, the signature character of John le Carre’s “Tinker, Tailor ...

George Smiley is making a comeback. John le Carré’s famous Cold War spy will appear for the first time in more than 25 years in A Legacy of Spies. Viking announced Tuesday that it will publish ...

John le Carré, the master of the Cold War thriller, is bringing back his most famous spy, George Smiley, in a new book. Smile, the intelligence officer who was a pivotal character in Le Carré ...

Rear Window: A series that looks back at great books and movies from the past.BY VINCE COSGROVEBefore Sir Alec Guinness took possession of John le Carré’s spymaster George Smiley in two ...

Gary Oldman takes on the character of spymaster George Smiley, linchpin in John le Carre's 1974 novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The Cold War classic, made into a hit TV series starring Alec ...

John le Carré‘s famous spy character George Smiley hasn’t retired quite yet. Nick Harkaway, le Carré’s son, is writing a new Smiley novel that will publish globally in fall 2024.

On why George Smiley is physically unremarkable, almost dull In the U.K., you had James Bond, you had Bulldog Drummond, you had these very much action-hero-type spy stories.

The last (and weakest) Smiley novel, The Secret Pilgrim, was published 25 years ago, but A Legacy of Spies seems to have been written for this political moment. The Smiley books are pretty much ...

George Smiley, the master spy in le Carré’s espionage universe, appears in many of the author’s novels, including “ A Legacy of Spies,” the author’s latest, which publishes Sept. 5 ...

John le Carré’s Spook Cynicism: Taking the Measure of George Smiley, 56 Years On. By Christian Lorentzen. Sept. 1, 2017. save d. Save this article to read it later.

An interview with actor Gary Oldman, who plays George Smiley in a new adaptation of John le Carré's book, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." Oldman, perhaps best known for playing Sirius ...

John Le Carre’s newest novel, “A Legacy of Spies,” brings back the man who is perhaps Le Carre’s most famous of spies, George Smiley, though mostly in name and recollection. Smiley is ...