The Honourable Schoolboy

A Pocket Books paperback in very good condition. Covers are clean, square, and free of soiling or creasing. Remainder mark to the bottom edge as issued. Pages are bright and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, annotations, or turned corners. Binding is firm and tight. A clean, very good copy in all respects. Published by Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster) in 2002, The Honourable Schoolboy is the second novel in John le Carré's celebrated Karla Trilogy, following Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) and preceding Smiley's People (1979). Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, both awarded in 1977. Set in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic Soviet penetration of the Circus — the British Secret Service — the novel follows George Smiley's methodical effort to rebuild the service and exact revenge on his Soviet counterpart Karla. His instrument is Jerry Westerby, a journalist and part-time operative codenamed the Honourable Schoolboy. Ships within Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.