![]() ![]() “So I wrote a book in great heat which said ‘a plague on both your houses,’” le Carré told the BBC in 2000. John le Carré at the “Zeit Forum Kultur” in Hamburg Nov. Written just after the Berlin Wall was built during the Cold War, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was inspired by a moment when le Carré and his colleagues feared nuclear war might be imminent. The tale of an agent forced to carry out one last, risky operation in divided Berlin highlighted one of the author’s recurring themes: the blurring of moral lines that frequently occurs in espionage. After his 1963 novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold became an international bestseller, he left MI6 to pursue writing full time. ![]() Le Carré published his first two novels - Call for the Dead (1961) and A Murder of Quality (1962) - while still working for MI6. Le Carré’s family said he died of pneumonia, and his literary agency, Curtis Brown, told The Associated Press his death was not related to COVID-19. ![]() ![]() John le Carré, the former British spy who elevated the spy-novel genre to high art with his intricately plotted thrillers and morally complex characters, died Saturday in Cornwall, England. ![]()
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