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Near the end of his life, le Carré became an Irish citizen. Le Carré's third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller, was adapted as an award-winning film, and remains one of his best-known works. This success allowed him to leave MI6 to become a full-time author. [5]
A Legacy of Spies, le Carré's 2017 novel, recounts the backstory to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold within a modern-day frame story told from the point of view of Peter Guillam. Karla's Choice, a 2024 Le Carré continuation novel by Nick Harkaway, the son of le Carré, takes place not long after that of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ...
Here are additional clues for each of the words in today's Mini Crossword. NYT Mini Across Hints 1 Across: Facebook's parent company — HINT: It starts with the letter "M"
Although Smiley has no concrete biography beyond that offered briefly at the beginning of Call for the Dead, le Carré does leave clues in his novels. Smiley was born to middle-class parents in the South of England in the early part of the 20th century (his birth date is retconned from 1906 to 1915 in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ), and spent at ...
John le Carré, whose bestselling novels about the chilly world of Cold War espionage were the basis for a long series of popular film and TV adaptations, has died of pneumonia. Le Carré’s ...
Agent Larabee from the 1960s spy satire/parody sitcom, Get Smart; Agent Six from Generator Rex; Agent Smith of The Matrix (franchise) Agent Vinod, from the 1977 and 2012 Indian spy films of the same name; Alec Leamas, in the 1965 film The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Alexander Scott, from the TV series I Spy
Afterword (2014), an essay on Kim Philby, published in A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre [7] The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life (2016), ISBN 978-0-241-97687-6 [8] Appeared at #10 for one week on the New York Times Best Seller nonfiction list. A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945–2020 (2022), ISBN 978-0241550090
Jim Prideaux is a fictional character created by John le Carré.He appears in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and is a minor character in A Legacy of Spies.He is the head of the "scalphunters", a division of MI6 (called "The Circus" in le Carre's books) dedicated to especially dangerous counterintelligence missions often involving violence or assassinations.