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John le Carre

NOUN
  1. English writer of novels of espionage (born in 1931)

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  • Africa is also the setting for a new novel by thriller writer John le Carré.
  • Nor do we taint John Le Carre's understated brilliance with the unpalatable thought that Jeffrey Archer is forever trying helplessly to write in roughly the same genre.
  • I cut my eyeteeth I think on the thrillers of John Le Carre, for example, although when I was younger, I suppose I read a lot of Robert Ludlum, too. Stephen Carter On The Artful Thrill Of 'Tinker, Tailor'
  • Coimbra described herself and the others as the "type of people who at night talk in encrypted chat rooms about world events, espionage, geostrategy, read John Le Carre novels, read Jeff Stein's Spy Talk blog, and by day work like everybody else. Mapping the world's intel agencies: easy as Google
  • On the plus side, it does enable you to act out your John Le Carre Cold War fantasies with no shortage of dead letter drops and darkened doorways from which to covertly observe the locals.
  • One of this novel's admirers blurbed it thusly: "Think Carl Hiaasen taking on John le Carre. Patrick Anderson reviews Keith Thomson's 'Twice a Spy'
  • From time to time, bits of scraggy information leaked out, courtesy of a spectacular defection or from a John le Carré spy novel.
  • Moments before, a hush had descended on the normally bustling London landmark as he began reading from his family memoir: A Life Like Other People's at Friday night's curtain-raiser for World Book Night - where a line-up of literary heavywights including Margaret Atwood, John Le Carré and Philip Pullman read from their own works and those of other writers. Book lovers flock to hear Trafalgar Square readings
  • I had been gadding around the country learning how to be totally inconspicuous and acquiring the rudiments of "tradecraft", as John le Carré would have called it. Top stories from Times Online
  • But the real problem with Mr. Deaver's Bond is that he's so devoid of personality, unmotivated by a consuming ideological passion like Fleming's anticommunism, so frequently contrasted with John le Carré's supposedly more sophisticated Cold War moral equivalence and unburdened by emotional complexity. You Only Live About 23 Times
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