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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.
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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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