John le Carré – George Smiley series (Books 3-8)

 

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Description:  John le Carré wrote his first novel in 1961, while still a member of the MI6. His career as a secret agent was destroyed by Kim Philby, a British double agent, who blew the cover of dozens of British agents to the KGB. Post that, nearly all of le Carré’s novels fall in the spy-thriller genre, with a particular emphasis on the Cold War. His first two novels, A Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality, closely follow the mystery fiction approach, where the emphasis is on a complex riddle that hero George Smiley must solve. In later, longer works, such as The Honourable Schoolboy and The Night Manager, le Carré approaches his material more as novelist focusing on the in-depth development of his characters. A lot of his work has been translated for the Movie & Televsion audience – the most famous ones being: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold starring Richard Burton,  the Sidney Lumet directed movie, The Deadly Affair;  1969 Frank Pierson film adaptation of The Looking Glass War. In 2001, Pierce Brosnan, the contemporary Bond, was cast as the lead spy in The Tailor of Panama. In 2005, the film The Constant Gardener was released, based on his novel.

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