Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré

Duplicity, paranoia, espionage, anxiety... All that and more can be found in John Le Carré’s spellbinding Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979). It’s the classic Cold War spy novel that inspired a generation...to keep their day jobs (since real spying is a lot of reading, interviewing people, and doing British old man swimming in rivers. Actually… the swimming sounds nice…)

Film released in 2011.
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: every British actor ever

Show Notes

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré - Book
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) - Blu-ray
The author, John Le Carré (aka David John Moore Cornwell) said the following about his career: “Let me tell you a few things about myself… In the old days it was convenient to bill me as a spy turned writer. I was nothing of the kind. I am a writer who, when I was very young, spent a few ineffectual but extremely formative years in British Intelligence.”
Le Carré’s take on the adaptation
Keeping track of the characters is rough… here is some help, courtesy of Collider
Director Tomas Alfredson is not on social media… Maybe spam the movie studio, StudioCanal?