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George Smiley, an agent at the very highest level of British Intelligence, enters the twilight world of espionage and his own past when he is assigned to discover which of his four closest colleagues is a double agent.

In an attempt to recover from the devastating effects of having uncovered a double agent in a high position in its organization, the British Secret Service carries out an elaborate espionage scheme in the Far East.

Veteran spy Alec Leamas, hoping to "come in from the cold" to retirement, is given one last bone-chilling assignment in which he is required to pretend defection and provide the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.

Vacationing at a posh tennis resort in Antigua, Perry and Gail are recruited by big-time Russian money launderer Dima to help him defect, an arrangement for which Dima promises to expose financial corruption but renders the hapless couple pawns in a deadly international scheme.

Bruno Salvador, the orphaned love child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese woman, is inspired by his mentor at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome, to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages, and becomes a British agent with conflicting loyalties.

Barley Blair suddenly possesses a sheaf of military secrets that could profoundly alter the course of history. British Intelligence wants him to find out who gave him the documents and why.