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David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré (/ l ə ˈ k ær eɪ / lə-KARR-ay), [1] was a British author, [2] best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television.
The book received positive reviews from critics. The Guardian wrote that le Carré "remains a magician of plot and counter-plot, a master storyteller". [2] Writing for The New York Times, Walter Isaacson praised the book as "a delightful collection of charming and occasionally insightful tales". [3]
The Incongruous Spy (1964), containing Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality, OCLC 851437951; The Quest for Karla (1982), containing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People (republished in 1995 as Smiley Versus Karla in the UK; and John Le Carré: Three Complete Novels in the U.S.), ISBN 0-394-52848-4
John le Carré, whose bestselling novels about the chilly world of Cold War espionage were the basis for a long series of popular film and TV adaptations, has died of pneumonia. Le Carré’s ...
Le Carré’s private life was as compelling as his fiction. A former spy for both MI5 and MI6, he was also revealed to be a serial adulterer in Adam Sisman’s 2023 biography, The Secret Life of ...
The real chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (the equivalent of Le Carre's Circus) is known by a similar name: "C". This originates from the initial used by Captain Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, RN, an early chief of the service, who signed his letters "C" in green ink. This custom has been upheld throughout the history of the service.
The story begins and concludes in Berlin, about a year after the completion of the Berlin Wall and around the time when double-agent Heinz Felfe was exposed and tried. [2] Le Carré's debut novel, Call for the Dead, introduced the characters George Smiley and Hans-Dieter Mundt. In that story, Smiley investigates the suicide of Samuel Fennan.
[10] An anonymous book review at Kirkus Reviews summarized: "A tragicomic salute to both the recuperative powers of its has-been hero and the remarkable career of its nonpareil author." [ 11 ] Michael J. McCann found the book "a pleasure to read," but noted that the secondary characters were underdone and the ending "feels hurried and rather ...