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
John le Carré, the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, is an English author of espionage novels. Cornwell was born on 19 October 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England. From 1948 to 1949, he studied foreign languages at the University of Bern in Switzerland. In 1950, he joined the Intelligence Corps of the British Army garrisoned in Austria, working as a German language interrogator of people who c... Read More
John le Carré was born in Dorset in 1931 and was educated at Sherborne School and the University of Berne, before reading modern languages at Oxford University. He taught at Eton from 1956-58, then spent five years in the British Foreign Service until 1964. He started writing in 1961, and his first novel, a spy thriller, was Call for the Dead, later made into the film The Deadly Affair starring... Read More
John le Carré, the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, is an English author of espionage novels. The Secret Pilgrim is a 1990 episodic novel. Ned is one of the British and American intelligence officers blamed for the betrayal of his country by the publisher Barley Scott Blair. Ned has been removed from the daily operation of what is called the Service and is an instructor at Sarratt, where... 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
David John Moore Cornwell, better known by the pen name John le Carré, is a British author of espionage novels. His novels emphasise the fallibility of Western democracy and of the secret services protecting it, often implying the possibility of East-West moral equivalence. This is a novel about how being a spy shapes you forever. It’s about the aftermath and what sacrificing your true identity... Read More
John le Carré is a giant of 20th-century fiction. This British author was born on 19 October 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England. Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality, le Carré's first two novels, are mystery fiction. Le Carre had walked away from a career in British intelligence and set about writing one of the most respected and cynical series of novels about intelligence and espionage in his... 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
John le Carré was born in Poole, England, on October 19, 1931. He had a gloomy childhood, thanks to the disruptive motions of his father, an erratic businessman who kept the family moving from place to place. After attending a series of private English schools, le Carré was called upon for national service and spent several years in Vienna with the Army Intelligence Corps. When the term expired... Read More
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British agent, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. This novel became an international best-seller. Alec Leamas is waiting in West Berlin at the Wall for Karl Riemeck to come across. Riemec... Read More
In 1960, British author John le Carré, whose real name is David John Moore Cornwell, resumed his intelligence career with the Foreign Service. During this time he began writing novels, the first entitled Call for the Dead. Two years later he resigned from the Foreign Service to devote himself entirely to writing. He achieved international fame as the author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.... Read More
David John Moore Cornwell, better known by the pen name John le Carré, is a British author of espionage novels. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works. Le Carré has resided in St Buryan, Cornwall, Great Britain, for more than 40 years, where he owns a mile of cliff close to Land's End. His later books inclu... Read More
Peter James is an international British writer of crime fiction. He was born in Brighton and was educated at Charterhouse School and went on to Ravensbourne Film School. For a brief period of time whilst at film school, James worked as Orson Welles' house cleaner. Subsequently, he spent several years in North America, working as a screenwriter and film producer, beginning in Canada in 1970 work... Read More
Peter James is a UK No. 1 bestselling author, best known for writing crime and thriller novels, and the creator of the much-loved Detective Superintendent Roy Grace. With a total of 13 Sunday Times No. 1s under his belt, he has achieved global book sales of over 19 million copies to date and has been translated into 37 languages. In Not Dead Yet, Roy Grace is back for his 8th case. An anonymous... Read More
Peter James is the author of several very successful thrillers, two of which have been made into successful TV films. He was born in 1948 and educated at Charterhouse. His interests include criminology, science and the paranormal. He writes a monthly column for Sussex Life magazine. James has written 35 novels, including the International best-selling crime thriller series featuring Brighton-ba... Read More
Peter James is the international bestselling author of many award-winning novels. His Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series, set in Brighton, translated into thirty-seven languages with worldwide sales of over nineteen million copies, has given him twelve consecutive Sunday Times Number Ones. Dead Tomorrow is the fifth novel in the multi-million copy bestselling Detective Superintendent Roy... Read More
Peter James is the international bestselling author of many award-winning novels. In 2015 WH Smith customers voted him the Greatest Crime Author of All Time and in 2016 he was awarded the coveted CWA Diamond Dagger, a lifetime achievement award for sustained excellence. In 2018 he received a Specsavers Honorary Platinum Bestseller Award. In addition to his career as a novelist, he has produced... Read More
British writer Peter James has written 35 novels, including the International best-selling crime thriller series featuring Brighton-based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, which have sold 19 million copies worldwide and have given him twelve consecutive UK Sunday Times number ones, as well as number ones in Germany, France, Russia and Canada, and he is also a New York Times best-seller. James... Read More
Peter James is a UK No. 1 bestselling author, best known for writing crime and thriller novels, and the creator of the much-loved Detective Superintendent Roy Grace. With a total of 13 Sunday Times No. 1s under his belt, he has achieved global book sales of over 19 million copies to date. James has served two consecutive terms as chairman of the UK Crime Writers Association and is Overseas Vice... Read More
James Brendan Patterson is an American author and philanthropist. Among his works are the Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women's Murder Club, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, NYPD Red, Witch and Wizard, and Private series, as well as many stand-alone thrillers, non-fiction and romance novels. In November 2015, Patterson received the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation. The Black Book is a t... Read More