Smiley's people

The Franklin Library, publishing arm of the Franklin Mint, made special arrangements with the trade publisher to produce a fine, luxury edition preceding the trade publisher's edition. This book is one of those special limited first editions. Franklin Library leather-bound books feature gilt decorations and lettering on the covers, silk moire decorated endpapers, sewn-in satin place marker ribbon, raised hubs on the spine, Smyth sewn bindings, all edges gilt and acid-neutral paper. John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. Rounding off his astonishing vision of a clandestine world, master storyteller le Carre perfects his art in "Smiley's People." In London at dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people -- "the no-men of no-man's land" -- into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland as he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla.