Superintendant Battle

Nichts scheint verdächtig, als Gerald Wade an dem Wochenende im Hause Lord Caterhams einem Herzversagen erliegt. Aber als kurz darauf sein Freund Ronald Devereux erschossen wird, macht sich Eileen Caterham, die Tochter des Lords, auf Verbrecherjagd. Ihr einziger Hinweis sind die letzten Worte des Verstorbenen: Seven Dials. Superintendant Battle lässt Eileen bei ihren Ermittlungen freie Hand und so entwickelt jeder seine eigene Methode, den Mörder zu fangen. Wer wird erfolgreich sein?

Simon Russell Beale stars as the intelligence officer George Smiley in a three-part dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carré's classic novel, first published in 1979 and the third in the celebrated Karla Trilogy following Tinker, Tailor, Solder, Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy. The final novel of John le Carre's Karla Trilogy opens with George Smiley feeling that he's outlived his usefulness. It's three years since he left "the Circus" and his era has long since been swept aside by a new Whitehall regime. But when a high-ranking officer in the Soviet army who defected to work for British Intelligence is found shot dead on Hampstead Heath, Smiley once again becomes a part of present-day matters of espionage. Episode one deals mainly with the early hours of the former spymaster's investigation into his old colleague's death…