The concluding part of John le Carre s celebrated Karla Trilogy, Smiley s People sees the last confrontation between the indefatigable spymaster George Smiley and his great enemy, as their rivalry comes to a shattering end. A Soviet defector has been assassinated on English soil, and George Smiley is called back to the Circus to clear up - and cover up - the mess. But what he discovers sends him delving into the past, on a trail through Hamburg and Paris to Cold War Berlin - and a final showdown with his elusive nemesis, Karla. An enormously skilled and satisfying work Newsweek We are all Smiley s people, a kind of secular god of intelligence - New Yorker