![]() ![]() In Smiley’s People - the third act of the trilogy of masterly Cold War novels that began with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - le Carré's ruthless Russian spymaster, Karla, schemes to protect his only weak point, the small, broken thing at the heart of his being, his schizophrenic, secret child. If we learn one thing from A Private Spy, his selected letters, it is that Cornwell/le Carré was always, to some degree or other, playing by Moscow Rules. ![]() This is one.”ĭon’t say he didn’t warn us. From his diplomatic cover at Bonn in West Germany, he writes to a civilian friend: “I have decided to cultivate that intense, worried look and to start writing brilliant, untidy letters for future biographers. By then his writer alter ego, John le Carré, had already published his first spy novel, Call for the Dying, to great acclaim. Which came first, the author or the spy? In 1961 David Cornwell, a junior agent in MI6, was sent on his first overseas posting.
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