Famous for his cold war espionage thrillers, David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known as John le Carré, died from pneumonia, aged 89.
"Spying was forced on me from birth much in the way, I suppose, that the sea was forced on CS Forester or India on Paul Scott. Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for the reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I’m sitting now."
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