Introduction: "a nation's political health": le Carré and Cold-War Britain
Alarm call: the communist threat and call for the dead
"Breeze blocks and barbed wire": the Berlin Wall and The spy who came in from the cold
"Looking at his own reflection": the establishment and The looking glass war
"Holding the world together": Tinker tailor soldier spy
"All one vanishing world": The honourable schoolboy
"It was a man": Smiley's people
Conclusion: "man not the mass."