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''The Honourable Schoolboy'' (1977) is a spy novel by John le Carré. In the story, George Smiley tries to reconstruct an intelligence service and to run a successful offensive espionage operation to save the service from being dismantled by the government. The "Honourable Schoolboy" of the title is Gerald Westerby, a British spy sent to Hong Kong. ''The Honourable Schoolboy'' is the second novel of the informal "Karla Trilogy" and was later anthologised in ''The Quest for Karla'' (1982), an omnibus edition of the Smiley books. In 1977, the book won the Gold Dagger award for the best crime novel of the year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. ==Synopsis== In 1974 George Smiley the caretaker chief of the secret intelligence service known as "the Circus" investigates his own spy service in the aftermath of capturing a Soviet mole within its prior leadership. He seeks clues to the trail of Karla, the Moscow Centre spymaster. To protect the politically weakened spy service, Smiley must launch an offensive against the Soviets. To that end, he and analysts Connie Sachs and Doc di Salis look into investigations unreasonably suppressed by Bill Haydon, the outed mole. They discover Sam Collins's investigation of a money laundering operation in Laos which points to involvement by Karla. Collins's investigations prompt Smiley to recall The Honourable Gerald "Jerry" Westerby, a former newspaper reporter and occasional Circus operative – and dispatch him to Hong Kong. Westerby blackmails a banker into allowing him to photograph the documentation of a trust account in which the Soviet money has ended up. The papers reveal only the name of the holder, Drake Ko. Parallel investigations in Hong Kong and London identify a woman named Elizabeth "Lizzie" Worthington as Ko's blonde girlfriend, Liese Worth. Lizzie was previously the girlfriend of a bush pilot, Tony Ricardo, and thinks herself a British intelligence agent. U.S. Intelligence reports that Ricardo has approached them with information about an opium cargo he was to fly to China. The Americans want to arrest Ko, but first allow Smiley up to twelve weeks to pursue Circus interests. Smiley quickly realises that Tiu, Ko's second-in-command, travelled to Shanghai six weeks before Ricardo's flight to meet with Ko's brother, Nelson, a high-ranking Chinese official and Soviet mole; Tiu was to arrange their rendezvous, through which Nelson would escape China. Westerby manœuvres Lizzie to dinner and interviews her about the connection between Ricardo's flight and the Soviet embassy. Westerby surmises she knows nothing of Nelson or the Soviet connection. On Circus orders, Westerby finds an opium smuggler named Charlie Marshall in Cambodia and manages to board a flight he is piloting to Phnom Penh. Ricardo is also aboard, but Westerby doesn't grasp who he is until arriving; in evading him, Ricardo shoots at Westerby. That night, Westerby interrogates Marshall, learning that Worthington was a heroin courier for Collins; that she intervened with Ko on Ricardo's behalf; that Marshall rejected Tiu's offer of $5,000 for a flight; and where Ricardo hides between flights. Westerby tracks down Ricardo in Thailand; Ricardo tells Westerby that Tiu, on Ko's behalf, hired him to pick up a package after arriving in China; instead of completing the job, Ricardo stole the opium and went into hiding. After Westerby tells him Nelson was the package, Ricardo again tries to kill him. On 30 April 1975, Westerby arrives at a United States Air Force base and reports to the Circus. In turn, the Circus orders his direct return to London. Disobeying, on his return to Hong Kong, Westerby finds the corpse of his journalist room mate Luke, who has been shot. Meanwhile, Smiley, Peter Guillam, and a party including CIA case officer Martello and Murphy travel to Hong Kong to capture Nelson. Smiley knows that he will escape China on a fishing junk heading to the southernmost island of Po Toi. On the run Westerby's schoolboy romanticism keeps him in Hong Kong – to rescue Lizzie and to protect Nelson while the CIA spies on Drake. They go to her apartment; Smiley enters unannounced, and Westerby, expecting either Drake or Tiu, assaults him, before realising his identity. Smiley orders Westerby sent to London but Westerby escapes, gets Lizzie, and takes a boat to Po Toi. There, she shows him the places special to Drake, helping Westerby to determine where Nelson will land from China. After arranging a rendezvous the following night, Lizzie returns to Hong Kong. That night on Po Toi island, Westerby finds Drake and Tiu at the beach, awaiting Nelson. After disarming and disabling Tiu, Westerby tells Drake that he wants Lizzie for himself, in exchange for saving Nelson from the Westerners. Drake is sceptical and hesitates. Just as Nelson lands, American helicopters appear and capture him. As they pull away, Circus minder Fawn kills Westerby. The CIA detains and interrogates Nelson; his interrogators do not include di Salis and Sachs. The operation yields top Circus jobs for Enderby and Collins. Enderby becomes Chief of the Circus, and Collins his Director of Operations. Smiley, who ignored Guillam's warnings throughout the operation, and Connie Sachs are forcibly retired with pensions, and Peter Guillam is demoted to head the scalphunters in Brixton - the position he held at the beginning of the Karla trilogy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Honourable Schoolboy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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