Carre smiley series6/27/2023 ![]() Le Carré died from pneumonia on 12 December 2020 at age 89. Has added several espionage Stock Phrases (and popularised existing ones), among both the public and, apparently, real spies. Although most of his works - and all of his best-regarded ones - are definitely Spy Fiction, he is one of the rare "genre" authors to have seriously blurred the line between genre and Literary Fiction. Eight feature his most famous creation, George Smiley. His novels are definitely of the Stale Beer flavour of Spy Fiction, being very dark in places. While he was in the service, he started writing novels and carried on once he'd left. ![]() He was a real-life member of MI-5 and the Secret Intelligence Service until he was blown by Kim Philby to the KGB. He is probably the English language's most respected Spy Fiction writer and certainly one of its best-known, with 14 of his 26 novels getting television or cinematic adaptations, some of them more than once. David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 - 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré, was an English author of thriller novels. ![]()
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