John Le Carré was a British novelist known for bestselling spy novels including “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.”Le Carré’s novels drew in part from his own experiences in the 1950s and ‘60s working for British intelligence in both MI5 and MI6, the British equivalents of the FBI and CIA.
His early novels focus on the Cold War that raged as they were being written, and several featured the Le Carré hero George Smiley, a retired spy whose everyman qualities endeared him to British readers as an anti-James Bond.
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