THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRé'As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen'Financial TimesFrom his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer,John le Carré has lived a unique life.In this,his first memoir,le Carré is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley,this book invites us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all,le Carré gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades,and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters.'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times'Guardian'When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré...These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind'Aung San Suu Kyi
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241396377Number of pages: 352Weight: 343 gDimensions: 197 x 127 x 27 mm
John le Carré
One of the greatest spy novelists of all time,John le Carré was born in 1931. 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 all featuring his most famous character,George Smiley,the quintessential Cold War operative. An antidote to Fleming's racier James Bond,Smiley is cool,thoughtful,somewhat academic and (superficially) "breathtakingly normal"with a somewhat ambivalent attitude to the Service and its efficacy. His other novels,thrillers which range widely covering variously political issues of the arms trade,modern conflict and drug-trafficking,include: A Most Wanted Man,Our Kind of Traitor,A Delicate Truth and the recently adapted The Night Manager. His only work of non-fiction,The Pigeon Tunnel,was a Number One bestseller in 2016.
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