David John Moore Cornwell, better known by the pen name John le Carré, is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service, MI5, and the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality are le Carré's first two novels. The Constant Gardener is a 2001 novel by the author. In August of 2005, Focus Features release... Read More
David John Moore Cornwell, better known by the pen name John le Carré, is a British author of espionage novels. In 2011, he was awarded the Goethe Medal. Most of le Carré's books are spy stories set during the Cold War and portray British Intelligence agents as unheroic political functionaries aware of the moral ambiguity of their work and engaged more in psychological than physical drama. Leav... Read More
When The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was first published in September 1963, David John Moore Cornwell, better known to the world by his pen name, John le Carré was still serving as a political consul in Hamburg, Germany. His real job was as an officer of MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author. The Looking Glas... Read More