John le Carre - ''Call for the Dead'' - Read by Michael Jayston

''Call for the Dead'' is John le Carre's first novel, published in 1961. It introduces George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in a story about East German spies inside Great Britain. It also introduces a fictional version of British Intelligence, called "the Circus" because of its location in Cambridge Circuswhich is apparently based on MI6 and recurs throughout le Carré's spy novels. Call for the Dead was adapted for film as The Deadly Affair.