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After attending the universities at berne and oxford, he taught at eton and spent five years in the british foreign service. Fans of the john le carre series, featuring mildmannered spymaster george smiley, will have plenty to investigate with books like call for the dead and smileys people. About the pigeon tunnel recounted with the storytelling elan of a master raconteur by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy. He was born on october 19th, 1931 to ronald thomas archibald and olive cornwell in dorset, england. The spy who came in from the cold, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, smileys people, a perfect spy, the russia house, the tailor of panama, the constant gardener, and his most recent. Cornwell also know as john le carre, his artistic pseudonym was born on the 19th of october 1931, in poole, a coastal town in the county of dorset, in england. Download and read online for free ebooks written by john le carre. He worked for both secret intelligence service and security service during the 1950s and the 1960s. An insightful observer of the human condition and contemporary geopolitics alike, le carres novels are exciting, thoughtprovoking and touch on both eternal truths and deeply felt issues of the moment. Thats what publishers weekly called the spy who came in from the cold in 2006, fortythree years after the. Download and read online for free ebooks written by. The pigeon tunnel by john le carre penguin random house audio.
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