Walker & Company, New York, 2004, 1^st pr. thus.  ISBN 0-8027-1442-0.  Hard cover, 152 pages.  Unread copy with tiny dings to top edge; binding sound with headbands and a very slight lean.  Near fine dust jacket with price intact.  Interior clean and unmarked.  The Second George Smiley Novel.  Ailsa Brimley, an old friend of George Smiley, has received a letter from a reader saying that her husband is trying to kill her.  Ailsa asks Smiley to investigate, ‘... but before he can begin, he discovers that Stella Rode has, in fact, been bloodily murdered.’ (from front flap)