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The Honourable Schoolboy John le Carre
Publisher: Scribner

Every year I buy a used paperback of John le Carré's The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) and take it to Hong Kong with me, to be left for someone else when I pack up to leave. Though he does enjoy the arid spy thrillers of John Le Carré, particularly The Honourable Schoolboy, which he appropriately endorsed yesterday in a room full of New York City schoolchildren. A pair of mini series based on John le Carre's spy novels chronicling the exploits of retired spy, George Smiley, through a trilogy including Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People. It would probably be hard to sell since Smiley is more-or-less a minor character, but perhaps with rewrites and more of Oldman it might be bankable. By John le Carre 686 pages, Sceptre. Despite all that, Tinker, Tailor is still a fantastic book and a recommended read. Westerby, "the honorable schoolboy", finds a tangled plot in the Far East, set against the dying days of the Vietnam War. He began to write full-time after the success of his third novel, the realistic, suspenseful The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963). My challenge then is to decide whether to start lsitening to The Honourable Schoolboy, or to finally read the paperback that has been on my TBR pile for three or four years? I'm halfway through The Honourable Schoolboy. Free ebook The Honourable Schoolboy: A George Smiley Novel pdf download.The Honourable Schoolboy: A George Smiley Novel by John le Carre pdf download free. So will I go on to The Honourable Schoolboy, the second in this trilogy? The Honourable Schoolboy picks up where Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy left off; George Smiley has taken over the Circus after the ouster of the mole, but that very ouster has led to a literal and figurative gutting of the Circus. After that I read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which is just so good. I wish someone would make a movie of The Honourable Schoolboy, but I'm guessing its “middle chapter” place in the trilogy means it is out of the question. I would love if The Honourable Schoolboy were made into a film. The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré seemed rather better this time than it did when I first read it eleven years ago.