Michael Jayston

George Smiley's interview with Samuel Fennan went well & he was able to reassure Fennan that what they had discussed would be dropped. Smiley was shocked to discover that Fennan had committed suicide as a result of the interview, but why?

Returning to England after the dramatic capture of Martinique, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho attains an all-too-brief respite from war and politics. But the shadow of a new conflict already darkens the horizon.

Set in contemporary, recession gripped Britain, a left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to...

The man he knew as "Control" is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement - especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with a shocking accusation: a Soviet mole has penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence. Relying only on his wits and a small, loyal cadre, Smiley recognises the hand of Karla - his Moscow Centre nemesis - and sets a trap to catch the traitor....