Livro sobre arquivos secretos do autor da série 'Millenium' chega ao Brasil | Lauro Jardim globo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
John le Carré (1931–2020): Spy novelist and “inside-outside” man
British author and former intelligence agent John le Carré died of pneumonia December 12 aged 89 years. Le Carré leaves behind an intriguing body of literary work set against a background of some of the key political and social developments of the past half-century. In the course of his career, le Carré was able to draw from experiences made during and after the Cold War to attract millions of readers with his carefully researched spy novels.
Born in 1931, David John Moore Cornwell he adopted the name John le Carré as an author in the early 1960s was the son of Ronnie Cornwell, a conman with upper class airs who was permanently in debt due to his criminal business ventures. David Cornwell had a generally miserable childhood. The boy could hardly admit to his well-heeled, upper class fellow students his father was a convicted criminal. At a young age, he already felt himself to be somewhat of an interloper w
Soft targets: The killing of Olaf Palme and Dulcie September
Of the two high-profile assassinations of the 1980s in Western Europe linked to apartheid South Africa, the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme in 1986 was only resolved in June 2020, while that of Dulcie Evon September, the ANC’s most senior representative in France, Switzerland, and Luxembourg remains an unsolved case. At the time, these two brutal murders were met with wide condemnation and, justifiably, inspired a wave of theories. At the heart of these theories was the role of apartheid South Africa and its intelligence agencies.
The making of a revolutionary reformist
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