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Line 1: {{creator}} {{outdated}} [[File:John le Carre.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|John le Carré in 2008]] {{quote\|''John le Carré's new espionage novel where...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.