Question
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 (“ahb-TIE-loong”). 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
<Parameswaran, Long Fiction>
Summary
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| 2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Columbia | 03/23/2024 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Duke | 03/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| Free-ish Agents | Cleo: 5/7 movie | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Present King of James is Bald | Riley et al. | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Tunks et al. | Williams et al. | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| World's Fair Wiggle Walk | Houston Junior College | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |