The Honourable Schoolboy

by John le Carre
Category: "Fiction - Adventure"
Pages:533
Year of Publication:1977
Date Added:12/22/2014
Date Read:08/23/2020
Notes:After a traitor was discovered in its midst, George Smiley is brought into the British Secret Service to restore order. His first task is to track down the Russian agent responsible for recruiting the traitor. He finds an in through a network in Hong Kong run by Drake Ko. Smiley sends agent Jerry Westerby to Hong Kong where he meets Lizzie, a British woman who was Ko's mistress. Westerby find the information he seeks and passes it on, but he decides to intervene and scotch the mission to protect Lizzie, whom he's fallen for. At the end, the Americans swoop in and grab Ko, Westerby is killed, and Smiley is replaced.
My Rating: 6

Reviews for The Honourable Schoolboy

Review - Honourable Schoolboy, The

The plot is much more complicated than my summation. There's a huge section in the middle in which Westerby travels around parts of Asia during the Vietnam War looking for clues that is fairly interesting but doesn't advance the plot much. It kept me reading, but there wasn't really anybody to root for.

Reviewed by Roger on 2020-08-23 09:48:59

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