 First edition | |
| Author | John le Carré |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | George Smiley |
| Genre | Crime, spy novel |
| Published | 1961 |
| Publisher | Gollancz |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 157 pp |
| ISBN | 0-7434-3167-7 |
| Followed by | A Murder of Quality |
Call for the Dead is John le Carré's first novel, published in 1961. It introduces George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in a story about East German spies inside Great Britain.[1] It also introduces a fictional version of British Intelligence, called "the Circus" because of its location in Cambridge Circus, that is apparently based on MI6 and that recurs throughout le Carré's spy novels. Call for the Dead was adapted for film as The Deadly Affair (1966).
- ^ Morrison, Jago, and Alan Burton. "Secrets, leaks and the novel: Writers, British intelligence and the public sphere after World War Two." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik [AAA], vol. 48, no. 1, June 2023, pp. 71