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John le Carre
John le Carre - The Honourable Schoolboy The
Honourable Schoolboy John le Carre Hmmm,
looks like another genie got out of the bottle Me
Fiction
The Honourable
Schoolboy
John le Carré
ISBN: 0 340 49490 5. Published: 1977
For Jane, who bore the brunt, put up with my
presence and absence alike, and made it all
possible.
I and the public know
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John le Carre
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
W. H. Auden
Contents
Part 1 - Winding the Clock
Chapter 1 - How the Circus Left Town
Chapter 2 - The Great Call
Chapter 3 - Mr George Smiley's Horse
Chapter 4 - The Castle Wakes
Chapter 5 - A Walk in the Park
Chapter 6 - The Burning of Frost
Chapter 7 - More About Horses
Chapter 8 - The Barons Confer
Chapter 9 - Craw's Little Ship
Chapter 10 - Tea and Sympathy
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Chapter 11 - Shanghai Express
Chapter 12 - The Resurrection of Ricardo
Part 2 - Shaking the Tree
Chapter 13 - Liese
Chapter 14 - The Eighth Day
Chapter 15 - Siege Town
Chapter 16 - Friends of Charlie Marshall
Chapter 17 - Ricardo
Chapter 18 - The River Bend
Chapter 19 - Golden Thread
Chapter 20 - Liese's Lover
Chapter 21 - Nelson
Chapter 22 - Born Again
PART 1 - WINDING THE
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CLOCK
Chapter 1 - How the
Circus Left Town
Afterwards, in the dusty little corners where
London's secret servants drink together, there was
argument abort where the Dolphin case history
should really begin. One crowd, led by a blimpish
fellow in charge of microphone transcription,
went so far as to claim that the fitting date was
sixty years ago when 'that arch-cad Bill Haydon'
teas born into the world under a treacherous star.
Haydon's very name struck a chill into them. It
does so even today. For it was this same Haydon
who, while still at Oxford, was recruited by Karla
the Russian as a 'mole', or 'sleeper', or in English,
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agent of penetration, to work against them. And
who with Karla's guidance entered their ranks and
spied on them for thirty years or more. And
whose eventual discovery - thus the line of
reasoning - brought the British so low that they
were forced into a fatal dependence upon their
American sister service, whom obey called in
their own strange jargon 'the Cousins'. The
Cousins changed the game entirely, said the
blimpish fellow: much as he might have deplored
power tennis or bodyline bowling. And ruined it
too, said his seconds.
To less flowery minds, the true genesis was
Haydon's unmasking by George Smiley and
Smiley's consequent appointment as a caretaker
chief of the betrayed service, which occurred in
the late November of 1973. Once George had got
Karla under his skin, they said, there was no
stopping him. The rest was inevitable, they said.
Poor old George: but what a mind under all that
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burden!
One scholarly soul, a researcher of some sort, in
the jargon a 'burrower', even insisted, in his cups,
upon January 26th 1841 as the natural date, when
a certain captain Elliot of the Royal Navy took a
landing party to fog-laden rock called Hong Kong
at the mouth of the pearl River and a few days
later proclaimed it a British colony. With Elliot's
arrival, said the scholar, Hong Kong became the
headquarters of Britain's opium trade to China
and in consequence one of the pillars of the
imperial economy. If the British had not invented
the opium market - he said, not entirely serious -
then there would have been no case, no ploy, no
dividend: and therefore no renaissance of the
Circus following Bill Haydon's traitorous
depredations.
Whereas the hard men - the grounded fieldmen,
the trainers and the case officers who made their
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own murmured caucus always - they saw the
question solely in operational terms. They
pointed to Smiley's deft footwork in tracking
down Karla's paymaster in Vientiane; to Smiley's
handling of the girl's parents; and to his wheeling
and dealing with the reluctant barons of
Whitehall, who held the operational purse strings,
and dealt out rights and permissions in the secret
world. Above all, to the wonderful moment when
he turned the operation round on its own axis. For
these pros, the Dolphin case was a victory of
technique. Nothing more. They saw the shotgun
marriage with the Cousins as just another skilful
bit of tradecraft in a long and delicate poker
game. As to the final outcome: to hell. The king
is dead; so long live the next one.
The debate continues wherever old comrades
meet, though the name of Jerry Westerby,
understandably, is seldom mentioned.
Occasionally, it is true, somebody does, out of
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foolhardiness or sentiment or plain forgetfulness,
dredge it up, and there is atmosphere for a
moment; but it passes. Only the other day a
young probationer just out of the Circus's
refurbished training school at Sarratt - in the
jargon again, 'the Nursery' - piped it out in the
under-thirties bar, for instance. A watered-down
version of the Dolphin case had recently been
introduced at Sarratt as material for syndicate
discussion, even playlets, and the poor boy, still
very green, was fairly brimming with excitement
to discover he was in the know: 'But my God,' he
protested, enjoying the kind of fool's freedom
sometimes granted to naval midshipmen in the
wardroom, 'my God, why does nobody seem to
recognise Westerby's part in the affair? If
anybody carried the load, it was Jerry Westerby.
He was the spearhead. Well, wasn't he? Frankly?'
Except, of course, he did not utter the name
'Westerby', nor 'Jerry' either, not least because he
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did not know them; but used instead the
cryptonym allocated to Jerry for the duration of
the case.
Peter Guillam fielded this loose ball. Guillam is
tall and tough and graceful, and probationers
awaiting first posting tend to look up to him as
some sort of Greek god.
'Westerby was the stick that poked the fire,' he
declared curtly, ending the silence. 'Any fieldman
would have done as well, some a damn sight
better.'
When the boy still did not take the hint, Guillam
rose and went over to him and, very pale,
snapped into his ear that he should fetch himself
another drink, if he could hold it, and thereafter
guard his tongue for several days or weeks.
Whereupon, the conversation returned once more
to the topic of dear old George Smiley, surely the
last of the true greats, and what was he doing
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with himself these days, back in retirement? So
many lives he had led; so much to recollect in
tranquillity, they agreed.
'George went five times round the moon to our
one,' someone declared loyally, a woman.
Ten times, they agreed. Twenty! Fifty! With
hyperbole, Westerby's shadow mercifully
receded. As in a sense, so did George Smiley's.
Well, George had a marvellous innings, they
would say. At his age what could you expect?
Perhaps a more realistic point of departure is a
certain typhoon Saturday in mid-1974, three
o'clock in the afternoon, when Hong Kong lay
battened down waiting for the next onslaught. In
the bar of the Foreign Correspondents' Club, a
score of journalists, mainly from former British
colonies - Australian, Canadian, American -
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