Friday essay: the secret lives of Ian Fleming and John Le Carré – the spymasters shaped by a lack of parental love

John le Carré and Ian Fleming, the world’s most famous spy novelists, share experience in UK intelligence and difficult childhoods. But their heroes, George Smiley and James Bond, are very different.

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