- John le Carré, British, Fiction, Novel
Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind.
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- Author
- John le Carré
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 557
- Publisher
- Penguin Canada, Coronet Books, Chivers Audio Books
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- German, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9783548605869
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“The news hit the British High Commission in Nairobi at nine-thirty on a Monday morning.”
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, due to his strong disapproval of Brexit, he took out Irish citizenship, which was possible due to his having an Irish grandparent. Le Carré's third novel, *The Spy Who Came in from the Cold* (1963), became an
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