abstract:The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) is a spy novel by John le Carré. George Smiley tries to reconstruct an intelligence service and to run a successful offensive espionage operation to save the service from falling to the "war hawks" in government.
When asked about 'the Honourable Schoolboy' by le Carre, Bloomberg quotes, "it's 600 pages, it's mostlydescription, there is almostnothingthat happens."