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Ned, approaching the end of his career in British Intelligence, invites us on a sentimental tour of his three decades in espionage.

About a diplomat's search for the reasons behind the murder of his wife. She had been working actively against testing of drugs on unsuspecting populations by pharmaceutical companies. He learns, not only about the covert operations of the drug companies in Third World countries, but about the sort of person his wife was, and her passion for justice.

Ted Mundy, former student radical and Cold War spy for the British, is living a quiet life as co-principal of an English-language school and tour guide in Germany when he is contacted by an old friend and colleague who tries to persuade Ted to accept a too-good-to-be-true offer from a mysterious philanthropist who is putting up $500,000 to turn the school into a vehicle for promoting international peace and understanding in the post-9/11 world.

Israeli intelligence agents are secretly pursued by an exceptionally dangerous and elusive Palestinian terrorist leader.

British intelligence agent George Smiley and his mortal enemy Karla, a Soviet agent, clash in a final confrontation.