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A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020

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Smiley, back in England, tracks down her family, working-class strivers, who brag that she is in Laos working for British intelligence.

He entered the secret world early, engaging in deceptions on behalf of his father but also to protect himself against a man who drank, gambled, and wasn’t above beating his son. It helped enormously that a new book was germinating, The Tailor of Panama, which he would eventually rate as one of his best.

The article was otherwise so crowded with inaccuracies that I for one would not know how to address it without cutting it to pieces.

You would never think that this land had ever been a battlefield, that these cottages had been pill-boxes, and the rivers tank traps. A career in fiction writing enabled him to avoid many of the moral compromises that plagued his characters, but he did not flaunt his good fortune. Now spies were “craven”, allowing the world to be led by “a handful of jingoistic adventurers and imperialist fantasists, backed by a lot of dark money and manipulation: populism led from above”. It is very kind of you to seek my opinion on the Nobel Prize in Literature, but I must tell you honestly that I have never given the subject a moment’s thought, except perhaps to reflect that, like the Olympic Games, a great concept has been ruined by political greed. For my money, I would ask you to play Corkoran tomorrow but we are dealing with minds that function on other planes, so they will probably give it to Dicky Attenborough.I can’t come to you yet, there is too much to worry about here,” he wrote on 7 March, and begged her to “wait a little longer please, it’s going to be a good year, but I have King Richard’s monkey on my back and have to wait a little while before I fling it off again.

I ran out of the house in London 2 weeks ago and forgot where to go or what I was up to and simply caught a train down here. Soon afterwards she would send him a photo, revealing that she was, as perhaps he suspected, a woman of color, with luxuriant curling dark hair. The clothes I wore, the food I ate and the books I read were bought with the money this had provided. That he held the concept of vocation—of a job that could become a container for the self—with a certain degree of sacredness is suggested in the considered and empathetic way he doles out career advice.According to his son, le Carré “covered the tracks” of his infidelities—but there are occasional revelatory exceptions. To see this happen – this great transformation from the grey indifference of England to the bewitching colours and the bright rebirth of Spring in Austria. The book, which was about an East German spy ring in London, introduced readers to the character of George Smiley, an S.

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