Smiley's People
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Smiley's People is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1979, by Random House (ISBN 0394508432). It is the third novel of the Karla Trilogy, featuring British master-spy George Smiley, following Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy.
George Smiley is called out from retirement, a final time, to investigate the death of an old, British agent, a Russian General anonymously living in retirement in London. Smiley learns the General had discovered information that would lead to a final confrontation with George Smiley's 'Black Grail', the Soviet spy-master Karla.
Smiley's People, was dramatised by John Hopkins as a television mini-series for BBC, in 1982, as a sequel to Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy (1979), again starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley.
See also
Smiley's people, an article by Neal Stephenson that has a title similar to the novel's title.