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Craig Sisterson pays tribute to a legend.
On December 12, one of the world’s greatest spy masters slipped from this world. Not from an assassin’s bullet in a darkened alley, poisoning from a nerve agent, or a wretched betrayal by someone wrongly trusted; but pneumonia. After a lifetime entwined with spycraft, David John Moore Cornwell, formerly of MI5 and MI6, passed away in his hospital bed, aged 89.
As the news broke the following day, the cover name Cornwell had created 60 years ago – not for a secret assignment, but for an espionage novel he was writing while still working for the British intelligence services during the Cold War – began trending worldwide.
John le Carré: Espionage writer dies aged 89
British espionage writer John le Carré has died aged 89, following a short illness, his literary agent has said.
The author of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy died from pneumonia on Saturday.
Fellow authors paid tribute, with Stephen King calling him “a literary giant and a humanitarian spirit”.
Historical fiction writer Robert Harris said le Carré, who chronicled the world of Cold War spies, was “one of the great post-war British novelists”.
Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood tweeted that his novels featuring spymaster George Smiley – described by le Carré as an “antidote” to James Bond – were the “key to understanding the mid-20th Century”.
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