Master spy writer John le Carre dies at 89
Master spy writer John le Carre dies at 89 Le Carré upended the Bond stereotype with books that portrayed British intelligence operations as cesspools of ambiguity in which right and wrong are too close to call and in which it is rarely obvious whether the ends, even if the ends are clear, justify the means. Sarah Lyall Save Share London | John le Carré, whose exquisitely nuanced, intricately plotted Cold War thrillers elevated the spy novel to high art by presenting both Western and Soviet spies as morally compromised cogs in a rotten system full of treachery, betrayal and personal tra...
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