It was that dogged gray bureaucrat of British espionage, George Smiley, the signature character of John le Carre’s “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” and “Smiley’s People” novels, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

She wrote: "George Smiley has it all, and has it all just right: a fanatical commitment to the inspection of reality, a corollary distaste for daydream and drama, a willingness to make moral ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

After The Looking Glass War (1965) le Carré abandoned Smiley for a couple of novels and then took him off the shelf for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in 1974, to fictionalize the story of Kim Philby ...

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.