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John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020. His posthumous novel Silverview was published in 2021.
John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020. His posthumous novel Silverview was published in 2021.
John le Carre was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the University of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5 & 6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carre widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020. His posthumous novel, Silverview, was published in 2021.
Valedictory, with a final turn of events that ends surprisingly but
pleasingly in a cock-up, this is a satisfying coda to the career of
the finest thriller writer of the 20th century
*Guardian, Books of the Year*
A compelling character study of a supposedly retired spy . . . Such
was his rare command of language and unique understanding of how
the world really works that I finished the book with a sense that
the only real grown-up in the room had left
*Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year*
As graceful an exit as we could hope for, the old master remaining
at the top of his game to the last
*Daily Express, Books of the Year*
Nothing will ever match the Cold War spy novels written in his
prime, but his later work illuminates themes of loyalty, betrayal
and conflicting values in a modern context
*New Statesman, Books of the Year*
A superb example of le Carré's enduring and exquisite genius
*Daily Mail, Books of the Year*
Gripping and involving, an elegant farewell by a much missed
writer
*Daily Express, Books of the Year*
Silverview has many of le Carré's characteristic virtues . . .
engaging characters and three or four splendid set scenes in which
veteran spooks stir the embers of old fires
*Scotsman, Best Books of the Year*
Silverview is a cat-and-mouse chase from an East Anglian seaside
town to the Eastern Bloc. Published ten months after he passed
away, it marks a fitting final work by the master of spy
fiction
*Irish Times, Books of the Year*
A taut, thrilling spy novel. Read it as a tribute to a master
*Stella, Books of the Year*
Silverview has all the old magic . . . it offers a rewarding
post-script to the long-distance spell-binders The Little Drummer
Girl and Absolute Friends
*Times Literary Supplement, Books of The Year*
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