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. 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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