International Women s Day: 7 female celebrities from Cumbria newsandstar.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsandstar.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bringing John Le Carre In From The Cold
A top Indian sleuth demystifies one of the world’s best-known spy authors outlookindia.com 2020-12-16T09:14:11+05:30
In 1974 a friend gifted me John Le Carre’s book Tinker, Tailor, soldier, Spy adding that it would be difficult to understand unless I knew how spies worked. Although I joined that ‘business’ in 1976, it would still take a long time for me to understand the nuances of Cold War spy scrimmages. From then on, it was a long journey for me till 2017 when “Outlook” asked me to review Le Carre’s last “Smiley” novel, “A Legacy of Spies” (“A Coven of Spy Masters”, September 29, 2017).
Follow RT on
By
Tom Secker, a British-based investigative journalist, author and podcaster. You can follow his work via his Spy Culture site and his podcast ClandesTime. The recently departed writer occupied a strange space in the spectrum of spy authors. He was simultaneously one of British intelligence’s most respected and beloved representatives while also seen as one of its foremost critics.
The demise of one of the world’s most famous spy authors leaves us with many unresolved questions. Who was le Carré? Where did his loyalties lie? Should we read his books as thinly fictionalised revelations about the crimes and corruption of MI5 and MI6, or as adverts for these agencies and their role in the world?