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[[File:John le Carre.jpg|thumb|300px|John le Carré in 2008]]
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Real name David John Moore Cornwell,
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, [[
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* ''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.
* ''[[The Spy Who Came in
* ''The Looking-Glass War'': adapted into a film.
* ''A Small Town In Germany'': Set in [[A Small Town in Germany|Bonn]]
* ''The Naïve and Sentimental Lover'': Le Carré's only non-spy novel.
* ''[[The Quest for Karla]]'' trilogy: ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'', ''The Honourable Schoolboy'' and ''Smiley's People''. The first and third were dramatised by [[The BBC]] (two, considering its setting--mid 1970s SE Asia--is a bit harder to do, but a radio adaptation exists) and starred Alec Guinness as George Smiley. [[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (
* ''The Little Drummer Girl'': adapted into a film starring Diane Keaton.
* ''[[A Perfect Spy]]'': a semi-autobiographical novel, dramatised by the BBC.
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* ''Our Kind of Traitor'' (2010)
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* [[Anachronic Order]] : common; le Carre often goes back in time to explore the psychological development of his characters.
* [[Anti-Villain]]: The first novel in particular. {{spoiler|Two Jews who survived the Nazis, one in a concentration camp}} wind up as spies because {{spoiler|they fear another Holocaust}}.
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* [[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")
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* [[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.
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