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In 2023, biographer Adam Sisman in The Secret Life of John le Carré identified 11 women with whom le Carré had affairs during his second marriage. [80] Le Carré's son Timothy died on 31 May 2022 at the age of 59, shortly after he finished editing A Private Spy, a collection of his father's letters. [81]
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
A recently retired Smiley is pulled in for one last job. He’s assured it will be short and simple. Famous last words. The peril-filled saga that follows fleshes out the early relationship between Smiley and the Soviet spymaster Karla, who becomes his nemesis in later works like “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and “Smiley’s People.”
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the fifth of le Carré's spy novels to feature the character of George Smiley (the first four being: Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and The Looking Glass War) and the fictionalised intelligence agency of "the Circus."