{"product_id":"books-call-for-the-dead-by-john-le-carre","title":"Call for the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003eSimon Russell Beale stars in this BC Radio 4 dramatization of John le Carre s first novel, which introduced his most famous character, George Smiley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realized characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis dramatization, set in London in the late 1950s, finds Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting. But when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide after an apparently unproblematic interview, Smiley is baffled. Refusing to believe that Fennan shot himself soon after making a cup of cocoa and asking the exchange to telephone him in the morning, Smiley decides to investigate only to uncover a murderous conspiracy with its roots in his own secret wartime past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, and Anna Chancellor, this tense, thrilling dramatization perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carre s masterful debut novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480293957905,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780802714435.jpg?v=1777545487","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-call-for-the-dead-by-john-le-carre","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}