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The Honourable Schoolboy
by LeCarre, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0340220422
- ISBN 13
- 9780340220429
- Seller
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Southampton, New York, United States
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About This Item
Hodder and Stoughton. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1977. Octavo. Blue boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Price-clipped dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, edgewear, tiny nicks and sticker on front flap. 532 pages. ISBN: 0340220422. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
Reviews
On Jul 4 2011, Feeney said:
1977's THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY is yet another spy novel by David John Moore Cornwell (b. 1931) whose far better known pen name is John Le Carre. Once again aging George Smiley is back in harness with MI-6, British Counter Intelligence or "the Circus" as it is called in the novel. He is patching together again in the 1970s a demoralized, discredited British Spy service after first detecting and neutralizing a Soviet mole. *** Like a good chess player who, proverbially, "learns more from a game he loses than a game he wins," George Smiley analyzes what archenemy Soviet spy master "Karla" was doing at uncharacteristic expense that Karla's English mole felt he had to take desperate but failed measures to prevent seeing the light of day. A money trail, laboriously followed up by Smiley and his favorite in-house English sleuths, leads from Moscow through Laos to Hong Kong. What on earth are the Soviets improbably up to in Britain's largest remaining Crown Colony? *** With excursuses to Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and wartime Viet-Nam, THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY gives a worm's eye view of one of Smiley's several unstable agents in the Far East, The Honourable Jerry Westerby. Like almost every other well sketched character in the novel, Westerby's hold on conventional morality is slim. He drinks too much, wenches too much and thinks too little. Yet his bulldog tenacity allows him to uncover key elements of what Soviet master spy Karla was up to in Hong Kong. At novel's end Westerby is trying to protect two aging Chinese brothers from the CIA determined to wrest one of the two away from Smiley and Britain in Britain's very own Hong Kong. *** THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY is a large, complex canvas. It is anything but profound. Its characters are almost uniformly dim in cross-cultural understanding. A better than average book this is, with appeal for lovers of Allen Dulles's "the craft of intelligence," or of Hong Kong in the 1970s, and of students of the American defeats in Cambodia and Viet-Nam and appeal for believers that God writes straight with unusually crooked British and Chinese lines. -OOO-
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- Bookseller
- Southampton Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 161520
- Title
- The Honourable Schoolboy
- Author
- LeCarre, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0340220422
- ISBN 13
- 9780340220429
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1977
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