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    A Murder of Quality
    A Murder of Quality
    A Murder of Quality
    Audiobook4 hours

    A Murder of Quality

    Written by John le Carré

    Narrated by Simon Vance

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    About this audiobook

    The second Smiley novel finds the spymaster investigating a murder, whodunnit style, in a satirical look at a uniquely British institution: the elite public school.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateMay 21, 2024
    ISBN9781666659771
    A Murder of Quality
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    John le Carré

    John le Carré (1931 – 2020), born David John Moore Cornwell, was a British-Irish author. He spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld; at sixteen, he found refuge first at the University of Bern, then Oxford. After graduating with honors, he taught at Eton for two years before he was recruited into British Intelligence. In 1961, while still an MI6 agent, he published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, which introduced the world to George Smiley. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, spent 32 weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list and earned him a reputation as one of the world’s preeminent spy novelists. Though he declined all British-based honors and prizes, he accepted the Premio Malaparte (Italy) in 1988, the title of Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) in 2005, and the Goethe Medal (Germany) in 2011. Over the course of sixty years, he published over two dozen novels that would come to define an age; his final novel, Silverview, was published posthumously in 2021.

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    • 4/5
      The second George Smiley novel, this one is good but not at the same level as le Carre's best works. Vance does an excellent job brining the story to life in an easy to listen to audiobook. A great way to listen to the Smiley books recently recorded.