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Violence
Barely any
Deaths; an apparent suicide
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
A betrayed marriage
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of loyalty, deception, and the moral grayness of intelligence work
What this book is about
Le Carré's 1961 debut novel introduces George Smiley, the unfashionable, cuckholded MI5 officer who investigates the death of a civil servant he had recently cleared. A spare, literary procedural. For older teens and adults.
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