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John le Carré: where to start reading, and 10 of his best novels

John le Carré: where to start reading, and 10 of his best novels
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John le Carré 1931-2020 | Waterstones.com Blog


Posted on 14th December 2020
by
Mark Skinner
John le Carré, who died on the 13th of December aged 89, was one of the towering figures of post-war British fiction. In this piece, we look back on the impeccable literary career of a writer who elevated the humble spy story into a work of art.    
Like Raymond Chandler or Ursula K. le Guin, John le Carré was an author whose literary merits and psychological insight transcended the stylistic straitjackets of the genre he worked within. For nearly sixty years he reigned supreme as the ultimate literary spymaster, crafting a thoroughly immersive shadow world of Cold War espionage and creating one of twentieth-century fiction’s most unlikely heroes. ....

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The Secret and Sordid World of John le Carre Remained Much Loved Till the End


The Secret and Sordid World of John le Carre Remained Much Loved Till the End
The writer showed that the end of the Cold War had not dimmed his fervour of taking on the world’s villains.
A still from the 2011 film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy .
Film14/Dec/2020
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, and the Cold War ended, fans of John le Carre (real name David Cornwell) wondered how he would cope with the new reality – after all, his novels, his entire literary career, was based on writing about the conflict between the West and the Soviet Union. ....

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John le Carre, British Master of Espionage Novels, Dies at 89


John le Carré
The former intelligence agent is known for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and The Russia House.
John le Carré, the British intelligence agent turned enigmatic author of such iconic espionage novels as
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, has died. He was 89.
Le Carré died Saturday evening in Cornwall, England, after a short illness that was not COVID-19 related, his literary agent, Jonny Geller of The Curtis Brown Group, reported.
I represented [le Carré] for almost 15 years, Geller said. I have lost a mentor, an inspiration and most importantly, a friend. We will not see his like again. ....

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