The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) is a spy novel by John le Carré. George Smiley tries to reconstruct an intelligence service and to run a successful offensive espionage operation to save the service from falling to the "war hawks" in government. The "Honourable Schoolboy” of the title is Gerald Westerby, a spy sent to Hong Kong.
The Honourable Schoolboy is the second novel of the informal “Karla Trilogy” and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1977. It was later anthologised in The Quest for Karla (1982), an omnibus edition of the Smiley books.
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