A six-part serial by John le Carre
5: ' If a rogue elephant charges at me out of the thickets of my past and gives me a second shot at it, I intend to shoot it dead, but with the minimum of force'.
Leipzig was dead but Kretzschmar had the tapes - Kirov's confession and the fruits of Leipzig's blackmail. Armed with this evidence Smiley has called for a crash meeting with Saul Enderby , currently head of the Circus.
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