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Call For the Dead [BBC Radio Collection]

af John le Carré

Andre forfattere: Simon Russell Beale (Fortæller)

Serier: George Smiley (1)

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George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin . This dramatisation, set in London in the late 1950s, finds Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting. But when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide after an apparently unproblematic interview, Smiley is baffled. Refusing to believe that Fennan shot himself soon after making a cup of cocoa and asking the exchange to telephone him in the morning, Smiley decides to investigate - only to uncover a murderous conspiracy with its roots in his own secret wartime past. Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron and Anna Chancellor, this tense, thrilling dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carre's masterful debut novel.2 CDs. 1 hr 30 mins."… (mere)
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Samuel Fennan, an employee at the British Foreign Office, commits suicide at home after being questioned by the Secret Service following an anonymous denounciation. George Smiley, in charge of the investigation, does not understand this reaction. Their conversation had been cordial, and Smiley had reassured Fennan nothing was held against him. While is offering his condolences to the widow, and trying to understand Samuel's gesture, the phone rings, and he intercepts a call for Fennan. A strange and for George Smiley a suspicious call.

Call for the dead is Smiley's first appearance, in a novel that is more of a classic crime novel than a spy novel. Indeed, more than a complex manipulation, or a remote chess game, we are witnessing here a police investigation, for which Smiley is assisted by a policeman. Admittedly, it turns out that the victims and the culprits are spies, but the starting point is very classic and the emphasis is on the false leads and on the clues that allow us to glimpse, little little by little, the truth.

Also interesting to see these first steps of the author who will become a master, to see his characters born, to see the first frictions between a George Smiley who, although ready to sacrifice a lot to efficiency, cares about the human factor, and a hierarchy who is only worried about the political repercussions on his career. Interesting to see the establishment of a whole mechanism of espionage, which will reach its peak in the following novels.

Admittedly, it is not the best Smiley, but Call for the death is not only worth rediscovering it makes me want to resume rediscovering the Smiley's series in order. ( )
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George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin . This dramatisation, set in London in the late 1950s, finds Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting. But when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide after an apparently unproblematic interview, Smiley is baffled. Refusing to believe that Fennan shot himself soon after making a cup of cocoa and asking the exchange to telephone him in the morning, Smiley decides to investigate - only to uncover a murderous conspiracy with its roots in his own secret wartime past. Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron and Anna Chancellor, this tense, thrilling dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carre's masterful debut novel.2 CDs. 1 hr 30 mins."

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