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{{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,
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.
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Has added several espionage [[Stock Phrases]] (and popularised existing ones), both among the public and, apparently, [[Defictionalisation|real spies]].
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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.
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