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David Cornwell, aka John Le Carré, the master of the spy novel, died this week. There are a thousand obituaries of Le Carré online, but perhaps it is worth the
Mekong Review remembering the author’s writing on Asia. For those obsessed with South East Asia Le Carré’s
The Honourable Schoolboy, published in 1977, is without doubt the most engrossing espionage novel of the region. For Le Carré fans it is the novel in which his greatest character George Smiley begins to rebuild an effective British intelligence service in the wake of the unravelling of “the Service” following the revelation of a senior Soviet mole in