London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1980. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust jacket is mildly sunned at the spine, and there are a few short closed tears at the top edge and some shelf wear. It has not been price clipped (£5.95 net). The boards are sharp in the publisher’s cloth. The top edge is mildly foxed, and there is a single spot to the side edge. John le Carré’s signature is flat signed, in blue ink, to the front fly. There are no additional inscriptions. Overall, this is a very good (or better) copy, fine with the author’s signature. It is the third and final novel of the ‘Karla Trilogy’, following Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy. George Smiley is called out of retirement to investigate the death of one of his old agents: a former Soviet general, the head of an Estonian émigré organisation based in London. Smiley learns the general had discovered information that will lead to a final confrontation with Smiley's nemesis, the Soviet spymaster Karla.