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Line 1: {{creator}} {{outdated}} [[File:John le Carre.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|John le Carré in 2008]] {{quote\|''John le Carré's new espionage novel where... be honest, we had you at le Carré didn't we?'' \|Advert for ''Our Kind of Traitor'' (2010)}} Real name David John Moore Cornwell, he'''John le Carré''' was a real-life member of [[MI 5]] and the [[Secret Intelligence Service]] until he was blown by [[Cambridge Five\|Kim Philby]] to the KGB. While he was in the service, he started writing novels and carried on once he'd left. His novels are definitely of the Stale Beer flavour of [[Spy Fiction]], being very dark in places. Eight feature his most famous creation, George Smiley. Has added several espionage [[Stock Phrases]] (and popularised existing ones), both among the public and, apparently, [[~~Defictionalization~~Defictionalisation\|real spies]]. ~~His novels:~~ {{bibliography}} * ''Call for the Dead'': adapted as ''The Deadly Affair'' (1966), with James Mason. * ''A Murder of Quality'': Smiley takes a brief retirement, becomes a public school teacher and has to investigate a murder. Line 38 ⟶ 40: * [[Batman Gambit]] (in ''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'') * [[Berlin Wall]] (crucial in the climactic scene of "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold") * [[~~De Fictionalisation~~Defictionalization]] (Some spy-speak that le Carre just made up, such as "tradecraft", is now actually used by [[~~MI 5~~MI5]] and [[~~MI 6~~MI6]] agents in [[Real Life]]) * [[Bittersweet Ending]] (very, very widespread. One of le Carré's trademark touches is that the price of success in matters of espionage is permanent emotional and psychological damage to those who have had to participate in betrayal.) * [[Blackmail]]: Both by the Circus (a "burn") and by criminals.