seen "le Carré" on a storefront, and later said he couldn't remember an origin. When translated, "le carré" means "the square". In 1964, le Carré's career...
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list of works by or featuring David John Moore Cornwell, a British author better known by his pseudonym John le Carré. It also includes a list of film,...
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The Tailor of Panama (category Novels by John le Carré)
Secret Worlds of John le Carre". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 4 August 2013. Carré, John Le (2004). Conversations with John Le Carré. Univ. Press of Mississippi...
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (category Novels by John le Carré)
Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1974 spy novel by the author and former spy John le Carré. It follows the endeavours of the taciturn, ageing spymaster George...
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novels under the John le Carré pen name. While the cover identifies Harkaway as the author it also describes the book as "a John le Carré novel". In 2023...
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A Perfect Spy (category Novels by John le Carré)
A Perfect Spy (1986) is a novel by British-Irish author John le Carré about the mental and moral dissolution of a high-level intelligence-officer. Major...
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (category Novels by John le Carré)
in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British agent, being sent to East Germany...
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Agent Running in the Field (category Novels by John le Carré)
the Field is a 2019 novel by British writer John le Carré, published on 17 October 2019. It was le Carré's final novel to be published before his death...
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Smiley Versus Karla (category Novels by John le Carré)
Smiley Versus Karla (1982), by John le Carré, originally published as The Quest for Karla, and also published as John Le Carré: Three Complete Novels, is...
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George Smiley (category John le Carré)
George Smiley OBE is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Smiley is a career intelligence officer with "The Circus", the British overseas intelligence...
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The Little Drummer Girl (category Novels by John le Carré)
The Little Drummer Girl is a spy novel by British writer John le Carré, published in 1983. The story follows the manipulations of Martin Kurtz, an Israeli...
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Connie Sachs (category John le Carré)
Connie Sachs is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Sachs plays a key supporting role in the Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The...
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of influences from John le Carré, Len Deighton, Charles Dickens to Reginald Hill and P. G. Wodehouse. Herron began reading le Carré at the age of 14 and...
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A Murder of Quality (category Novels by John le Carré)
Quality is the second novel by John le Carré, published in 1962. It features George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in his only...
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A Legacy of Spies (category Novels by John le Carré)
2017 spy novel by British writer John le Carré. A Legacy of Spies is both a prequel and a sequel to John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold...
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The Looking Glass War (category Novels by John le Carré)
The Looking Glass War is a 1965 spy novel by John le Carré. Written in response to the positive public reaction to his previous novel, The Spy Who Came...
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Smiley's People (category Novels by John le Carré)
Smiley's People is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1979. Featuring British master-spy George Smiley, it is the third and final novel of the...
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Bill Haydon (category John le Carré)
Bill Haydon is a fictional character created by John le Carré who features in le Carré's 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He is a senior officer in...
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Silverview (category Novels by John le Carré)
Silverview is a novel by British writer John le Carré, published posthumously on 12 October 2021. The book was completed for publication by his son Nick...
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John le Carré: The Biography is a 2015 biography of John le Carré written by Adam Sisman It was published by Bloomsbury (UK), Harper (US) and Knopf (Canada)...
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Gerald Westerby (category John le Carré)
or Jerry Westerby, is a fictional character created by spy novelist John le Carré. He first appeared in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), and is the titular...
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A Small Town in Germany (category Novels by John le Carré)
Small Town in Germany is a 1968 espionage novel by the British author John le Carré. It is set in Bonn, the "small town" of the title, against a background...
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documentary film directed by Errol Morris. It follows the life and career of John le Carré. It had its world premiere at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on 1...
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The Constant Gardener (category Novels by John le Carré)
The Constant Gardener is a 2001 novel by British author John le Carré. The novel tells the story of Justin Quayle, a British diplomat whose activist wife...
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and the MI6 agent David Cornwell who wrote spy novels under the name John le Carré. Charlotte credited her brother David with suggesting she pursue a career...
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV series) (category John le Carré)
Alec Guinness asked author John le Carré to introduce him to a real spy to aid him in preparing for his role. Le Carré invited Guinness to lunch with...
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The Little Drummer Girl (TV series) (category John le Carré)
drama television series based on the 1983 novel of the same name by John le Carré. The six-episode series first aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom...
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The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (category Novels by John le Carré)
that by abandoning the spy novel, le Carré was not playing to his strengths. They wrote that "it isn't that le Carré is out of his depth here, or that...
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mole] from Le Carré, rather than vice versa. Le Carré, John; Bruccoli, Matthew J; Baughman, Judith (2004). Conversations with John le Carré (illustrated ed...
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Our Kind of Traitor (novel) (category Novels by John le Carré)
Kind of Traitor, published in 2010, is a novel by the British author John le Carré, about a Russian money launderer seeking to defect after his close friend...
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