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Pierre Guillame, [1] better known by the anglicised form Peter Guillam, is a fictional character in John le Carré's series of espionage novels. He first appears in Call for the Dead . He is the trusted right-hand-man of George Smiley , the protagonist of many of le Carre's novels, and is often the person Smiley turns to for assistance when he ...
Peter Guillam — Head of the scalphunters, the section of the Circus used in operations that require physical action and/or violence. Previously the head of Satellites Four, in charge of East German operations, he was "exiled" to the scalphunters outstation in Brixton after Control was dismissed.
A Legacy of Spies is both a prequel and a sequel to John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.. In The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Alec Leamas, an agent of the British overseas intelligence agency called "The Circus", who is motivated by the death of his operative Karl Riemeck while crossing from East Berlin to West Berlin, agrees to undertake one ...
A Legacy of Spies, le Carré's 2017 novel, recounts the backstory to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold within a modern-day frame story told from the point of view of Peter Guillam. Karla's Choice, a 2024 Le Carré continuation novel by Nick Harkaway, the son of le Carré, takes place not long after that of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ...
Smiley sends Guillam to the Circus archive to steal the duty officer's logbook for the night Tarr contacted London. Guillam, who had been Tarr's boss, is unexpectedly brought before Circus leadership and told that Tarr, who has been detected flying into Amsterdam, is a traitor who has been bribed by the Soviets. Guillam returns to Smiley's ...
Peter Guillam - Circus officer based in Berlin, tasked with handling Mundt, under the cover of a fur import business. Hans-Dieter Mundt - Stasi officer based in East Berlin and double agent of The Circus. Tom Lake - Circus Scalphunter. Jim Prideaux - Circus Scalphunter normally resident in Czechoslovakia.
Peter Guillam – Circus "cup-bearer" to Smiley; Fawn – "Scalphunter" and Smiley's bodyguard; Connie Sachs – chief Moscow-gazer; Doc di Salis – head China-watcher; Molly Meakin – skillful, junior staff; a pretty Circus girl who catches Peter Guillam's eye; Sam Collins – an "old Circus" field officer, formerly based in Vientiane, Laos.
With the help of his protégé, Peter Guillam, who is still in the Circus, Smiley begins a secret investigation into the events surrounding Operation Testify, believing it will lead him to the identity of the mole, whom Moscow Centre has given the cover name Gerald.