Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: In the early nineteen seventy during the Cold War, the head of British Intelligence, Control, resigns after an operation in Budapest, goes badly wrong.
It transpires that Control believed one of four senior figures in the service was in fact a Ru agent - a mole - and the Hungary operation was an attempt to identify which of them it
was. Smiley had been forced into retirement by the departure of Control, but is asked by a senior government figure to investigate a story told to him by a rogue agent, Ricky
Tarr, that there was a mole.
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