In one novel, Alec Leamas believes that this character has sabotaged his mission by agreeing to help pay Liz’s rent and thus revealing her to the Abteilung. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this protagonist of the Karla Trilogy, which opens with a novel in which this character is brought out of retirement by the “scalphunter” Peter Guilliam to sniff out a Soviet mole in “the Circus.”
ANSWER: George Smiley [or George Smiley]
[10e] John le Carré’s novels about George Smiley are often contrasted with this author’s fast-paced spy novels centered on James Bond.
ANSWER: Ian Fleming [or Ian Lancaster Fleming]
[10h] Another spy sometimes called the “anti-Bond” is this novel’s unnamed hero, who often pokes fun at the British bureaucracy. This Len Deighton novel is titled for a brainwashing method used on scientists by Jay and Dalby.
ANSWER: The IPCRESS File
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