Call for the dead

George Smiley had liked the man and now the man was dead.

Suicide. But why? An anoymous letter had alleged that Foreign Office man Samuel Fenman had been a member of the Communist Party as a student before the war.

Nothing very unusual for his generation. Smiley had made it clear that the investigation - little more than a routine security check - was over and that the file on Fenman could be closed.

Next day Fenman was dead with a note by his body saying that his career was finished and he couldn't go on.

Why? Smiley was puzzled ...