Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Tambayar Haydon ta bayyana cewa Karla ta dauki hayar shi shekaru da yawa da suka gabata kuma ya zama dan leken asirin Soviet mai cikakken iko a wani bangare saboda dalilai na siyasa, a wani bangare kuma cikin takaici game da tasirin Burtaniya da ke raguwa cikin sauri a fagen duniya, musamman saboda gazawar a Suez
Ka yi haƙuri. Ana tsammanin za a musanya shi da Tarayyar Soviet don wasu daga cikin jami'an da ya ci amanar, amma an kashe shi jim kaɗan kafin ya bar Ingila. Kodayake ba a bayyana ainihin wanda ya kashe shi ba, an nuna cewa Prideaux ne, saboda hanyar aiwatar da hukuncin da ya yi daidai da yadda ya kashe wani tsuntsu mai rauni a farkon littafin. An nada Smiley shugaban rikon kwarya na Circus don magance sakamakon, kuma har yanzu yana kan gaba a farkon littafi na biyu na Karla Trilogy, The Honourable Schoolboy.