title: The Patriot Paradox: A Kurt Vetter International Spy Thiller (The Reluctant Hero) (Volume 1)
author:  William Esmont 
description: William Esmont writes about zombies, spies, and the future from his home in southern Arizona. When not writing, he likes to spend time hanging out with his wife and their two Great Danes.
zlib_text: **Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy**
  
   **Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy**
  
  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  
  John le Carré
  
  PART ONE
  
   **Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy**
  
  **CHAPTER ONE**
  
  The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn’t dropped dead at Taunton races Jim
  would never have come to Thursgood’s at all. He came in mid-term without an
  interview, late May it was though no one would have thought it from the
  weather, employed through one of the shiftier agencies specialising in supply
  teachers for prep schools, to hold down old Dover’s teaching till someone
  suitable could be found. ‘A linguist,’ Thursgood told the common room, ‘a
  temporary measure,’ and brushed away his forelock in self-defence. Priddo.’ He
  gave the spelling P-R-I-D’ - French was not Thursgood’s subject so he
  consulted the slip of paper - ‘E-A-U-X, first name James. I think he’ll do us
  very well till July.’ The staff had no difficulty in reading the signals. Jim
  Prideaux was a poor white of the teaching community. He belonged to the same
  sad bu