Talk:Bill Haydon
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>>Before this could happen, though, he was killed by hired Russian goons.<<
- Is this correct, though ? It is actually implied that Jim Prideaux, betrayed in Czechoslovakia by Haydon, is the killer: le Carre has Prideaux killing an owl caught in a chimney early on in the book, and the image recurs in reference to Haydon's death
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- Certainly in the television series it is made explicitly clear that the killer is Prideaux, however in the novel (as I recall and I do not have a copy to hand here in Finland) I believe it was left somewhat more open-ended. I will check this when I return to the UK tomorrow, although my recollection was that there were indications to Prideaux performing the killing. Sjc 03:52, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, I think you are right. There was no real specification in the book of who killed him. I don't even remember him being dead in Tinker Tailor; I just remember them mentioning it in The Honourable Schoolboy, but I could be wrong...--97.115.0.224 (talk) 05:14, 3 April 2008 (UTC):::
- Certainly in the television series it is made explicitly clear that the killer is Prideaux, however in the novel (as I recall and I do not have a copy to hand here in Finland) I believe it was left somewhat more open-ended. I will check this when I return to the UK tomorrow, although my recollection was that there were indications to Prideaux performing the killing. Sjc 03:52, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
