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John le Carré

JOHN LE CARRÉ was born in 1931. For six decades he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence, in MI5 and MI6. He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley’s People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. Silverview is his twenty-sixth novel. John le Carré died on December 12, 2020.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
A Private Spy
Silverview
Agent Running in the Field
A Legacy of Spies
The George Smiley Novels 8-Volume Boxed Set
The Pigeon Tunnel
The Night Manager
The Tailor of Panama
A Delicate Truth
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
A Small Town in Germany
The Looking Glass War
A Murder of Quality
Call for the Dead
A Perfect Spy
The Naïve and Sentimental Lover
Smiley's People
The Little Drummer Girl
The Honourable Schoolboy
Our Kind of Traitor
The Secret Pilgrim
The Book of Spies
Our Game

Books

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
A Private Spy
Silverview
Agent Running in the Field
A Legacy of Spies
The George Smiley Novels 8-Volume Boxed Set
The Pigeon Tunnel
The Night Manager
The Tailor of Panama
A Delicate Truth
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
A Small Town in Germany
The Looking Glass War
A Murder of Quality
Call for the Dead
A Perfect Spy
The Naïve and Sentimental Lover
Smiley's People
The Little Drummer Girl
The Honourable Schoolboy
Our Kind of Traitor
The Secret Pilgrim
The Book of Spies
Our Game

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