George Smiley OBE is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Smiley is a career intelligence officer with "The Circus", the British overseas intelligence agency. He is a central character in the novels "Call for the Dead", "A Murder of Quality", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "The Honourable Schoolboy", and "Smiley's People", and a supporting character in "The Spy Who Came In from the Cold", "The Looking Glass War", "The Secret Pilgrim" and "A Legacy of Spies". The character has also appeared in a number of film, television, and radio adaptations of le Carré's books.