Even the recent film adaptation of Tinker Tailor was good with a stellar cast. Of his novels I liked 'The Honourable Schoolboy' the best, its great complexity,

Even the recent film adaptation of Tinker Tailor was good with a stellar cast. Of his novels I liked 'The Honourable Schoolboy' the best, its great complexity, its descriptions of the byzantine bureaucracy of Britain and the moral ambiguity of it all, which is missing from most of genre fiction. His novels were "literary" spy novels. A major loss.