# Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/pop-locke/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy>

**By** Mike German, Patrick G. Eddington

**Published:** February 2, 2022

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At the Circus, who can trust the ringmaster? Pat Eddington and Mike German join us sort who is who in John LeCarre’s _Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy_.

## SUMMARY:

Ripped from the headlines, John LeCarre’s _Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy_ is a tightly woven plot of intrigue, espionage, and entrapment. But George Smiley, one of the Circus’s top intelligence officials is on the case of this knotted mess, pulling the threads, and following them all the way to the top. Here to break down the legacy of one of the UK’s most enduring characters are Cato Institute Senior Fellow Pat Eddington as well as Mike German, Fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty \& National Security Program.

## FURTHER READING:

[_Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy_](https://www.amazon.com/Disrupt-Discredit-Divide-Damages-Democracy/dp/1620973790), by Mike German