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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
John le Carré
Born: October 19, 1931
Died: December 12, 2020 (aged 89)
Bio: David John Moore Cornwell, pen name John le Carré, was a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service, and began writing novels under a pen name.
Known for:
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)
- A Perfect Spy (1986)
- The Night Manager (1993)
- The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)
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