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John le Carré s stories of Cold War espionage are absolute classics – Angus Robertson Angus Robertson © John le Carre pictured in August 2005 (Photo: Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto via Getty Images) His books, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, are amongst his 25 works which are absolute classics. Last weekend the 89-year-old writer died after a short illness and tributes have been paid to him as an “undisputed giant of English literature” by contemporary greats including Robert Harris, Margaret Attwood and Stephen King. I came late to le Carré’s works when researching espionage in post-war Austria while based in Vienna as a journalist. It turns out that David Cornwell, as he was called in real life, cut his teeth in the Alpine republic as a junior intelligence officer in Graz, before serving with MI5.

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