Call for the dead

Call for the dead

by John le Carré

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The book was titled “Call for the dead” because it was the only evidence that existed about the death of a foreign office civil servant. The main character (Smiley) realized that Fennan (employee of the government) didn’t commit suicide because this man had solicited a wake-up call two hours after that he died. Obviously, this evidence was very important and that provoked a lot of mysterious in the life of this officer (Smiley). These mysterious are about spies, conspiracies and infidelity.

Smiley had to discover if Fennan was a German spy. But when the last one died, Smiley started investigating the case by himself, this irritated to his boss. Afterwards, a man tried to kill to Smiley, a secret conspiracy wanted to kill him. When Smiley found the man who tried to kill him, this man had died. In that period, an old friend of war (Fried) visited the Smiley’s house. He was working for Germany but Smiley didn’t know that. During this time, Fried had been having sex with Smiley´s wife. Finally, Smiley discovered that Fennan’s wife and Fried worked for East Germany. Smiley fought with his friend, and he had to kill him.

In my opinion is a complicated story, most of characters are suspects. By the way, the author makes his point. He talks about the German spies; in addition to, he creates an enigmatic story. About romantic relations, the author shows us a man totally open-minded about infidelity, his woman is terrible horny and unfaithful; nonetheless, he loves her. This situation strikes my attention, he got used to of that and he doesn’t anything. The main lesson of this story is: you have to be unfaithful!!! Really, for me is difficult to understand the moral of the story; however, if you fight looking for the true and don’t give up, you can win all the battles and, of course, don´t be unfaithful.