Although he has done observational "field work" in the past and recruited spies that report to him, Guillam himself is uncomfortable with getting personally involved in spying operations, preferring an administrative role. Although Call for the Dead indicates that he served in the Second World War, the later books in the series indicate that he was born around 1933. Guillam is half-French and half-English, and comes from a family that has worked for The Circus (le Carre's name for MI6) for generations. 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 fears he cannot trust his peers or subordinates. Pierre Guillame, better known by the anglicised form Peter Guillam, is a fictional character in John le Carré's series of espionage novels.
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