![]() ![]() Out of prison, his father maintained his criminal life “under the guise of respectability”, a lesson for the youngster in just how far in life subterfuge can take a “chancer”. His father Ronald was a “con man”, who did hard labour in prison in the late 1930s after being convicted for insurance fraud. Le Carré previously had a career in British intelligence, working for MI5 and MI6 during the 1950s and 1960s before turning to writing, earning critical acclaim around the world for novels such. “I think he has easily burst out of being a genre writer,” said fellow novelist Ian McEwan, “and will be remembered as perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain.”īorn David John Moore Cornwell in Poole on 19 October 1931, le Carré was intrigued by deception and the power to manipulate people, themes that appeared throughout his fiction, and traits he learned intimately from his own “dysfunctional” childhood. But the author of classics such as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and A Perfect Spy was, at heart, a writer who explored human frailty, the dynamics of betrayal and the moral ambiguities of serving political authority. ![]() John le Carré, who has died at the age of 89, dominated spy fiction for more than half a century. ![]()
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