JOHN LE CARRE

John le Carre is still at the top, more than half a century after The Spy Who Came in from the Cold became a worldwide bestseller. F rom his bleak childhood - the departure of his mother when he was five was followed by 'sixteen hugless years' in the dubious care o f his father, a serial-seducer and con-man - through recruitment by both MI5 and MI6, to his emergence as the master of the espionag e novel, le Carre has repeatedly quarried his life for his fiction. Millions of readers are hungry to know the truth about him. Writ ten with...[Read more]