George Smiley Books in Order, by John le Carré

ByThe Lab Guy

George Smiley is a career intelligence officer with “The Circus”, the British overseas intelligence agency.

He appeared in a series of spy thrillers set during the Cold War written by John Le Carré as the main protagonist or as a secondary character.

Here is the George Smiley Series in Order

Call for the Dead (1961)
A Murder of Quality (1962)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)
The Looking Glass War (1965)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)*
The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)*
Smiley’s People (1979)*
The Secret Pilgrim (1990)
A Legacy of Spies (2017)

*Those three books formed what is known as “The Karla trilogy.”

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