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Anthony Cornwell, from Teesside, brushed off his symptoms of tiredness and assumed it was because he was getting older - but he soon found out that he had leukaemia

John le Carré, who lifted the spy novel to literature, dies at 89 Matt Schudel John le Carré, a British author who drew on the enigma of his incorrigibly criminal father and his own experiences as a Cold War-era spy to write powerful novels about a bleak, morally compromised world in which international intrigue and personal betrayal went hand in hand, died Dec. 12 at a hospital in Cornwall, England. He was 89. The cause was pneumonia, his U.S. publisher, Viking Penguin, ...