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The octogenarian spy novelist who was once a spy himself was catapulted to celebrity with his third novel, 1963's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Half a century of best sellers and film/TV adaptations cemented his iconic status and opened the world's doors, and all the while le Carré made detailed mental notes. With a storyteller's craftsmanship, he recounts escapades with a list of notables—and his own frayed family—in British intelligence, as a writer, deep-background researcher, teache...Log In or Sign Up to Read More