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الجاسوس الجندي السمكري تايلور، للمؤلف
جون لي
كاريه
.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
is a 1974 British
spy novel
by
John le Carré
, featuring
George Smiley
. Smiley is a middle-aged, taciturn,
perspicacious
intelligence expert
in forced retirement. He is recalled to hunt down a Soviet
mole
in the "Circus", the highest echelon of the
Secret Intelligence Service
. In keeping with le Carré's work, the narrative begins
in medias res
with the repatriation of a captured British spy. The background is supplied during the book through a series of
flashbacks
.
Chronology
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
is the first novel of the
Karla Trilogy
, the second and third novels being
The Honourable Schoolboy
(1977) and
Smiley's People
(1979), later published in an
omnibus
edition as
The Quest for Karla
(1982). These are the fifth, sixth, and seventh Le Carré spy novels featuring George Smiley.
Title
Control, the Circus Chief, assigns the code names "Tinker", "Tailor", "Soldier", "Poorman" and "Beggarman" to various senior intelligence officers under suspicion of being a Soviet mole, with the intention that should an agent called Prideaux uncover information about the identity of the mole he can relay it back using an easy-to-recall code the mole is unaware of. The names are derived from the English children's rhyme "
Tinker, Tailor
". In the book, "Sailor" is not used as it sounds too much like "Tailor".
Plot
Through a love affair with the wife of a
Moscow Centre
intelligence officer, British agent Ricki Tarr discovers that there may be a high-ranking Soviet mole, codenamed "Gerald", within the Circus. After going under cover to avoid Soviet agents, Tarr alerts his immediate superior,
Peter Guillam
, who in turn notifies
Oliver Lacon
, the
Civil Service
officer responsible for the Intelligence Services. Lacon enlists
George Smiley
, the retired former Deputy Head of the Service, to investigate. Smiley and Guillam must investigate without the knowledge of the Circus, which is headed by
Percy Alleline
and his deputies
Bill Haydon
,
Roy Bland
, and
Toby Esterhase
, as any of these could be the mole.
Smiley suspects that "Gerald" was responsible for the failure of Operation Testify, a mission in Communist
Czechoslovakia
, the ostensible purpose of which was the kidnapping of a Czech Army general. Operation Testify ended with Circus agent
Jim Prideaux
shot in the back, and caused the disgrace and dismissal of Control, former head of Circus, who subsequently died. Prideaux, who survived and was repatriated but was then dismissed from the Circus, reveals to Smiley that Control suspected the mole's existence and the true aim of Operation Testify was to discover the mole's identity, and the Moscow Centre personnel who interrogated him already knew this.
Percy Alleline, who was Control's rival, has risen to head the Circus as a result of seemingly top-grade Soviet intelligence from a source code-named "Merlin". Smiley's investigation leads him to believe that the "Merlin" source is false, and is being used by Moscow Centre to influence the leadership of Circus. Cleverly, Moscow Centre has induced the Circus leadership to believe that "Merlin" maintains his cover in Moscow by feeding them low-grade British intelligence, "chicken feed", from a false Circus mole. As a result, the leaders of the Circus suppress any rumours of a mole, thus protecting the actual mole.
Smiley contrives a trap for the real mole using a communication from Tarr, and "Gerald" is revealed to be Bill Haydon, a respected colleague and former friend who once had an affair with Smiley's now estranged wife. Haydon acknowledges he was recruited by
Karla
, the Moscow Centre spymaster. Haydon is to be exchanged for several of the agents he betrayed, but is killed shortly before he was due to leave England. Though his killer is not explicitly revealed, it is strongly implied to be Prideaux, whose motivation was revenge.
Smiley is appointed temporary head of Circus to deal with the fallout.
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