JOHN LE CARRÉ was born in 1931. For six decades he wrote
novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence
trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the
London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of
Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to
a short career in British Intelligence, in MI5 and MI6. He
published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a
secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,
secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the
acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable
Schoolboy, and Smiley’s People. At the end of the Cold War, le
Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape
including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The
Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley
novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. Silverview is his
twenty-sixth novel. John le Carré died on December 12,
2020.
"His masterpiece...the greatest spy novel ever written..."
--NPR
“The premier spy novelist of his time. Perhaps of all
time.”—Time
“A rattling good novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“John le Carré is the great master of the spy story…the constant
flow of emotion lifts him not only above all modern suspense
novelists, but above most novelists now practicing.”—Financial
Times
“Stunning.”—Wall Street Journal
"Le Carré has never presented so much detail about the intelligence
Establishment...and keeps one guessing right to the end " -- The
New York Times
"A great thriller, the best le Carré has written" -- Spectator
(London)
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