John Le Carre

Le Carre was the pen name of David John Moore Cronwell, a renowned author of mysteries and, especially, spy novels.

One way, his career started in an eerie parallel to that of Ian Fleming. Fleming intended his first James Bond tale, Casino Royale, to serve as an indictment of the moral compromises and often pointless nature of Cold War espionage, but instead found the tale to be embraced by the public as an action-packed adventure. Le Carre's goal for his early works was similar. Unlike Fleming, who embraced James Bond's popularity as an action figure, Le Carre persisted in a more serious, bleaker view of espionage and covert warfare and of the moral toll they take on their practitioners.

Carre's work was informed by his own experience working for both the United Kingdom's MI5 (domestic counterintelligence) and MI6 (foreign intelligence) departments. A number of his works have been adapted in movies, television, and radio. Wikipedia

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