Table of Contents:
- ch. 1 George Smiley: liberal sentiment and skeptical balance
- ch. 2. Ambiguous moralism: loyalty and betrayal
- ch. 3. Skepticism: balancing dreams and realities
- ch. 4. Balancing means and ends: the limits of raison d'État
- ch. 5. Ambiguity of human nature: motives and personality
- ch. 6. Bureaucratic politics: domestic and international
- ch. 7. Culture and craft of espionage
- ch. 8. Fiction and the real world of espionage
- ch. 9. Learning to live with ambiguity: balancing ethical and political imperatives.