The enduring novel by one of our greatest storytellers. George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy. The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles & lamplighters, scalp-hunters & pavement artists, where men are turned, burned or bought for stock. Smiley`s mission is to catch a Moscow Centre mole burrowed thirty years deep into the Circus itself.