Contents

Introduction

1 A Brief History of George Smiley

2 We Never Closed

3 Elsa Fennan

4 Coffee at the Fountain

5 Maston and Candlelight

6 Tea and Sympathy

7 Mr. Scarr's Story

8 Reflections in a Hospital Ward

9 Tidying Up

10 The Virgin's Story

11 The Unrespectable Club

12 Dream for Sale

13 The Inefficiency of Samuel Fennan

14 The Dresden Group

15 The Last Act

16 Echoes in the Fog

17 Dear Adviser

18 Between Two Worlds