Smiley Versus Karla

1982 omnibus book by John le Carré

First US edition (publ. Knopf) under original title

Smiley Versus Karla (1982), by John le Carré, originally published as The Quest for Karla, is an omnibus edition of three novels concerning George Smiley's fight against Karla, his counterpart in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (the Soviet KGB). The "Karla Trilogy" includes:

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – (1974)
The Honourable Schoolboy – (1977)
Smiley's People – (1979)

See also

The Incongruous Spy

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Works by John le Carré

Novels

Call for the Dead (1961)
A Murder of Quality (1962)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)
The Looking Glass War (1965)
A Small Town in Germany (1968)
The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (1971)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)
The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)
Smiley's People (1979)
The Little Drummer Girl (1983)
A Perfect Spy (1986)
The Russia House (1989)
The Secret Pilgrim (1990)
The Night Manager (1993)
Our Game (1995)
The Tailor of Panama (1996)
Single & Single (1999)
The Constant Gardener (2001)
Absolute Friends (2003)
The Mission Song (2006)
A Most Wanted Man (2008)
Our Kind of Traitor (2010)
A Delicate Truth (2013)
A Legacy of Spies (2017)
Agent Running in the Field (2019)
Silverview (2021)

Films

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
The Deadly Affair (1967)
The Looking Glass War (1970)
The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
The Russia House (1990)
The Tailor of Panama (2001)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

Television

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
Smiley's People (1982)
A Perfect Spy (1987)
A Murder of Quality (1991)
The Night Manager (2016)
The Little Drummer Girl (2018)

Characters

Miscellaneous

Category

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