A Small Town in Germany. London: Heinemann, 1968. First Edition. Maroon cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. A nice bright copy.

Set in Bonn, West Germany, where le Carré had worked in the Foreign Service.

A minor bureaucrat in the British Embassy has disappeared, along with several confidential files. The story takes place in an environment of international espionage, student riots and rising neo-Fascism.

The first le Carré novel not to feature George Smiley or his fictional MI6 counterpart The Circus.