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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Spy, Cold, Tinker with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'The Honourable Schoolboy'
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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book titled The Honourable Schoolboy?
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conversations.value: The Honourable Schoolboy: In 1974 George Smiley, the new chief of the secret intelligence service referred to as The Circus, continues to investigate his spy service in the aftermath of his exposure of Bill Haydon as Gerald the mole.\nAttempting to follow the trail of Karla, the Moscow Centre spymaster and to protect his politically-weakened spy service, Smiley launches an offensive against the Soviets.\nHe and analysts Connie Sachs and Doc di Salis look into investigations unreasonably suppressed by the outed mole.\nThey discover that Sam Collins's investigation of a money laundering operation in Laos could point to involvement by Karla.\nSmiley recalls The Honourable Jerry Westerby, a newspaper reporter and occasional Circus operative and dispatches him to Hong Kong.\nWesterby coerces a banker into allowing him to photograph the documents of a trust account; the destination of the Soviet money.\nThe papers reveal the name of the holder, Drake Ko.\nInvestigations in Hong Kong and London identify a missing woman named Elizabeth Worthington as Ko's blonde girlfriend, Liese Worth.\nShe had believed herself to be a British intelligence agent working with Sam Collins.\nS.\nIntelligence reports that Ricardo has approached them with information about an opium cargo he was to fly to China.\nThe Americans want to arrest Ko but first allow Smiley up to twelve weeks to pursue Circus interests.\nSmiley quickly realises that Tiu, Ko's second-in-command, travelled to Shanghai six weeks before Ricardo's flight to meet with Ko's brother, Nelson, a high-ranking Chinese official and Soviet mole; Tiu was to arrange their rendezvous, through which Nelson would escape China.\nWesterby manœuvres Lizzie to dinner and interviews her about the connection between Ricardo's flight and the Soviet embassy.\nWesterby surmises she knows nothing of Nelson or the Soviet connection.\nSmiley decides to force Ko to react to being spied upon, thereby advancing Operation Dolphin.\nWesterby manipulates Lizzie Worthington into coming to dinner.\nShe calls Tiu to the restaurant; before him, Westerby interviews her about Ricardo, the bush pilot, about the connection between Indocharter Air Transport and the Soviet embassy in Vientiane.\nSurprised and somewhat relieved, Westerby perceives her ignorance of the gold seam, of Nelson Ko and of the Soviet connection.\nOn Circus orders, Westerby finds the bush pilot-opium smuggler Charlie Marshall in Battambang, Cambodia and manages to board a flight Marshall is flying en route to Phnom Penh.\nRicardo also is aboard but Westerby doesn't grasp who he is until Phnom Penh; in evading him, Ricardo shoots at Westerby.\nThat night, Westerby takes Marshall from an opium den and interrogates him, learning that Lizzie was a heroin courier for Collins; that she directly intervened with Drake on Ricardo's behalf; that Tiu offered Marshall $5,000 for a flight, which he turned down and where, between flights, Ricardo hides.\nWesterby pursues Ricardo by ferry, across the Mekong River into Thailand; Ricardo tells Westerby that Tiu, on behalf of Ko, hired Ricardo to fly opium into China and pick up a package, paying Ricardo's debts as an advance for the job; instead of completing the job, Ricardo stole the opium and the Beechcraft airplane and went into hiding.\nWesterby tells Ricardo that Nelson was the package.\nRicardo tries to kill Westerby again, using a delayed-action hand grenade in the fuel tank of his hired car; Westerby smells a rat and safely watches the car explode.\nOn 30 April 1975, Westerby arrives at an American air force base in north-east Thailand and cables his report to the Circus; he also learns that the North Vietnamese Army has captured Saigon, winning and ending the Vietnam War (1945–75).\nThe Circus orders his return to London, not via Hong Kong.\nWesterby takes no notice and goes to Hong Kong.\nAt his flat he finds the corpse of Luke, his photojournalist roommate, who has been shot.\nTo ascertain the success of Operation Dolphin, Smiley, Guillam, and Fawn (Smiley's factotum-bodyguard), along with the CIA men Martello and Murphy, are in Hong Kong to capture Nelson Ko.\nSmiley knows that Nelson will escape China (as Drake did in 1951) on a fishing fleet junk, going to the southernmost island of Po Toi.\nOn the run, and spurred on by schoolboy romanticism, Jerry Westerby remains in Hong Kong to rescue Lizzie Worthington (he takes her from a cocktail party) and to protect Nelson from capture by the Circus, while the CIA spies on Drake.\nThey go to her apartment; Smiley enters unannounced and Westerby, expecting either Drake or Tiu, assaults him, before realizing it is his boss.\nIn turn, Fawn manhandles Jerry.\nSmiley orders Fawn and Guillam to put Westerby aboard a flight to London but Westerby escapes, gets Lizzie and they take a boat to Po Toi.\nThere, she shows him the places special to Drake, helping Westerby to determine where Nelson will land from China.\nAfter arranging a next-night rendezvous with Westerby, Lizzie returns to Hong Kong.\nThat night on Po Toi island, Westerby finds Drake and Tiu at the beach, awaiting Nelson.\nAfter disarming and disabling Tiu, Westerby tells Drake that he wants Lizzie for himself, in exchange for saving Nelson from the British and the Americans.\nDrake is sceptical and hesitates.\nYet just as Nelson lands, American helicopters appear and load Nelson on a helicopter.\nAs the helicopters pull away, Westerby is shot and killed by Fawn.\nThe CIA, not the British, detain and interrogate Nelson; his interrogators do not include di Salis and Sachs.\nThe success of Operation Dolphin yields top Circus jobs for Enderby and Collins, who becomes (temporary) Chief of the Circus.\nSmiley and Connie Sachs are retired with pensions and Peter Guillam is sent to head the scalphunters in Brixton.