
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré
1974

Joseph Conrad · 1907
320 pages
In late-Victorian London, a shopkeeper who is also a paid spy for a foreign power is ordered to carry out a bombing. The people around him, including his wife and her vulnerable brother, are pulled into the consequences of a plot he cannot control.
Spy Thriller, Betrayal, Morally Grey Character, Victorian London Atmosphere