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In this book, Smiley is brought out of retirement a final time to investigate the death of an old British agent, a Russian General living in anonymous retirement in London. Smiley finds that the General had discovered information that would lead him to a final confrontation with Smiley's 'Black Grail', the Soviet spy-master Karla.
The novel was dramatised by John Hopkins as a highly-acclaimed mini-series for the BBC in 1982 as a sequel to Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy, again starring Alec Guinness as Smiley.