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John Le Carré's novel, The Call for the Dead, begins with a wordy introduction into the past and present life of the main character George Smiley. The introduction starts by explaining George Smiley's marriage to Lady Ann Sercomb, who left him for a Cuban racecar driver during the war. The introduction then moves into details about George Smiley's professional life. Le Carré then goes on to explain that George Smiley's tutor, Jebedee, recruited him to join a Secret Foreign office organization led by chairman Steed-Asprey. After everyone had died or moved on the only ones left were the career man, Maston, and Smiley himself named the Minister's Adviser on Intelligence or the Head Eunuch. This prologue ends with the image of George Smiley sitting comfortably in a taxi, on the 4th of January, at 2 o'clock in the morning, on his way to Cambridge Circus. George Smiley then receives a call from Maston with urgent news that Samuel Fennan, a man who Smiley had interviewed under suspicion......

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