Stella Rode, the wife of a master at Carne, an old and exclusive English boys' school, is found murdered soon after writing to a small Christian newspaper to say that her husband means to kill her. George Smiley, retired from intelligence, goes to Carne at the request of an old wartime colleague and finds a closed world of snobbery, tradition and secrets. The only Smiley novel set outside the world of espionage.
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