John le Carré

Nat, a 47-year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over....

The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carre's best-selling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley....

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar....

A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway.

George Smiley was summoned from his dubious retirement by two seemingly unconnected events....

The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier’s son born 1947 in a new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife....

The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty's financially troubled government is seeking admission to Europe's Common Market....

It is the third summer of perestroika. Niki Landau, philanderer and travelling rep, attends the first Moscow audio fair and is asked by beautiful young Katya to take a parcel back to England....

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, is living out his old age when a letter from his old Service summons him to London....

It is 1962: the height of the Cold War and only months after the building of the Berlin Wall. Alec Leamas is a hard-working, hard-drinking British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters....

The beautiful Tessa Quayle is murdered near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. And her putative African lover and travelling companion has vanished from the scene of the crime....

The betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network, and Smiley wants revenge. He chooses his weapon: Jerry Westerby....

The night manager is Jonathan, a veteran of clandestine operations. In flight from a failed marriage and his own past, he has taken refuge in the luxury hotel trade....

A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand...

This novel, set in London in the late 1950s, finds Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting....

At 48, Tim Cranmer is a secret servant in retirement, free to devote himself to his manor house....

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap....

Mr George Smiley is small, podgy, and at best, middle-aged. He is disillusioned, wrestles with idleness, and has been deserted by his beautiful wife....

A half-starved young Russian man is smuggled into Hamburg. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or maybe not....

Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carré's first novel, which introduced his most famous character, George Smiley....