THE INCONGRUOUS SPY by John Le Carre. 381 pages. Walker. $5.95.
Lurking among the chillier shadows of John Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a plump, worried man named George Smiley. Smiley is the British intelligence agent who sets up the betrayal of the hero's mistress so that another part of the plot can thicken. Though nearly 150,000 copies of Spy Who Came in have been sold in the U.S. alone, very few readers will know George Smiley from any other stranger who hurries by in a dark street with his hat pulled low. But Smiley...
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