The book, based on the premise of uncovering a Soviet double agent in the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), offers a novelisation of this period. The five had risen to very senior positions in branches of the British government. Guy Burgess, Donald Duart Maclean, and Kim Philby, later known as members of the Cambridge Five, had been exposed as KGB spies. When Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was published in 1974, revelations exposing the presence of Soviet double agents in Britain were still fresh in public memory. In 2022, the novel was included on the " Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The novel has been adapted into both a television series and a film, and remains a staple of the spy fiction genre.
The novel has received critical acclaim for its complex social commentary-and, at the time, relevance, following the defection of Kim Philby. It follows the endeavours of taciturn, aging spymaster George Smiley to uncover a Soviet mole in the British Secret Intelligence Service. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1974 spy novel by British-Irish author John le Carré.
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