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  1. Mar 19, 2021 · Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is widely regarded as the greatest spy novel ever written. Even if the story continues in movie form, there may only be one direction for it to go.

  2. Moles and Other Lingo. "Tinker, Tailor" is full of insider lore, most notably the word "mole" to describe a long-term spy who has penetrated and still works within an enemy’s secret service. The ...

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  4. Sep 27, 2012 · The joy of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in novel form and in the TV series is that all interpretations are possible. But I'd be surprised if anyone were led to the same ruminations by the film ...

  5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the fifth of le Carré's spy novels to feature the character of George Smiley (the first four being: Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and The Looking Glass War) and the fictionalized intelligence agency of "the Circus." Two of the characters, Peter Guillam and Inspector ...

  6. These two spy thrillers couldn’t be more different: one is noisily high-tech, the other quietly old school.

  7. Dec 7, 2011 · Share. The spy genre, is generally speaking, a euphemism for ‘action movie’ — look at the explosions, fistfights and car chases of the Bond films, of the ‘ Mission: Impossible ‘ series, of...

  8. Overview. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) is a thriller written by John Le Carré. It is the first entry in a trilogy of books about an aging spy named George Smiley and has been adapted into television and radio shows as well as a feature film. This study guide refers to the 2018 Penguin Classics eBook edition.