While providing critical reflections on the work across generations of enthusiasts, this is the first book exclusively dedicated to John le Carré's 1974 novel and its adaptations in radio, TV, and film.

Randal A. Rogers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Religion, and Critical Studies at the University of Regina. He is a SSHRC-funded scholar who is currently writing a book about queer subjects in the espionage genre of film and television.

1. Tracing le Carré: his work on the road

Toby Miller

2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the le Carré film cycle, and the espionage thriller

Tom Ryall

3. The days before empire became a dirty word: decline, nostalgia and betrayal in John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Jost Hindersmann

4. Ethical dilemmas in John le Carre's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and its adaptations

Lars Ole Sauerberg

5. Gramophone, telephone, radio, spy: mediation and espionage

Brian Baker

6. Searching for a lost home in the labyrinth: set design in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Jane Barnwell

7. Meeting the real George Smiley?: John le Carré and Alec Guinness at the bbc (1978-82)

Joseph Oldham

8. 'Essentially, another man's woman': information and gender in the novel and adaptations of John le Carre's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Geraint D'Arcy

9. Le Carré's queer nostalgia

Randal Rogers

10. Interrogation in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tod Hoffman