John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, earning him and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley, worldwide acclaim. In Smiley's People, master storyteller le Carré perfects his art.

In London, at the dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people—the no-men of no-man's land—into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland.

As he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla, Smiley's journey is one of unrelenting suspense and unmatched intrigue.