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The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) is a spy novel by John le Carré. In the story, George Smiley tries to reconstruct an intelligence service and to run a successful offensive espionage operation to save the service from being dismantled by the Read More..

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Description	The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) is a spy novel by John le Carré. In the story, George Smiley tries to reconstruct an intelligence service and to run a successful offensive espionage operation to save the service from being dismantled by the government. The "Honourable Schoolboy" of the title is Gerald Westerby, a British spy sent to Hong Kong.The Honourable Schoolboy is the second novel of the informal "Karla Trilogy" and was later anthologised in The Quest for Karla (1982), an omnibus edition of the Smiley books. In 1977, the book won the Gold Dagger award for the best crime novel of the year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Description	The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) is a spy novel by John le Carré. In the story, George Smiley tries to reconstruct an intelligence service and to run a successful offensive espionage operation to save the service from being dismantled by the government. The "Honourable Schoolboy" of the title is Gerald Westerby, a British spy sent to Hong Kong.The Honourable Schoolboy is the second novel of the informal "Karla Trilogy" and was later anthologised in The Quest for Karla (1982), an omnibus edition of the Smiley books. In 1977, the book won the Gold Dagger award for the best crime novel of the year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

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Name	The Honourable Schoolboy
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Authors	John le Carré
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Genre	Spy novel
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Series	George Smiley/The Quest for Karla
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Language	English
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Country	United Kingdom
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Media_type	Print (hardback & paperback)
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Isbn	1-135-43056-X
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Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
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