George Smiley

Under deep cover: The Taper Man, by Nick Harkaway, reviewed

7 November 2026 9:00 am

It is 1965, and George Smiley is investigating a communist sleeper agent in America who is poised to expose Britain’s operative in Moscow

The spy who came back from retirement: Karla’s Choice, by Nick Harkaway, reviewed

9 November 2024 9:00 am

Given a new lease of life by John le Carré’s son, George Smiley gets embroiled in a murky affair involving the Circus’s key Stasi asset and a missing Hungarian literary agent

A blast from the past

9 September 2017 9:00 am

If you had to choose one book that both typified spy fiction and celebrated what the genre was capable of…