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* MyCountryTisofTheeThatISting: One writer for ''The Atlantic'' titled an article "John le Carre Knew England's Secrets", and opined "he revealed more about the country's ruling class than any political writer of his era." Needless to say, his portrayals were not flattering.
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* MyCountryTisofTheeThatISting: MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: One writer for ''The Atlantic'' titled an article "John le Carre Knew England's Secrets", and opined "he revealed more about the country's ruling class than any political writer of his era." Needless to say, his portrayals were not flattering.
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* TheVerse: Some of his non-Smiley novels share characters in common. ''The Russia House'' and ''The Night Manager'' are unambiguously in the same continuity as the [[Literature/TheQuestForKarla Smiley]] stories, for instance, through the characters of Ned and Burr. Interestingly, it was done [[{{Retcon}} retroactively]] - there's no mention of familiar characters in ''The Russia House'', but ''The Secret Pilgrim'' [[ArcWelding reveals Ned first worked under Smiley]] and even revealed how "the Fall" affected the Circus, even down to changing from the slighly whimsical nickname of "The Circus" to the more plain "Service".
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* TheVerse: Some of his non-Smiley novels share characters in common. ''The Russia House'' and ''The Night Manager'' are unambiguously in the same continuity as the [[Literature/TheQuestForKarla Smiley]] stories, for instance, through the characters of Ned and Burr. Interestingly, it was done [[{{Retcon}} retroactively]] - there's no mention of familiar characters in ''The Russia House'', but ''The Secret Pilgrim'' [[ArcWelding reveals Ned first worked under Smiley]] and even revealed how "the Fall" affected the Circus, even down to changing from the slighly whimsical nickname of "The Circus" to the more plain "Service".
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* ''The Looking-Glass War'' (1965): The Department, the Circus's less-successful rival, receives reports of missile buildup in East Germany, and dispatch their runner, John Avery, to investigate. Avery reactivates Fred Leiser, a retired agent in the midst of a midlife crisis, to serve as his eyes and ears behind the Iron Curtain. It was Le Carré's second attempt at DoNotDoThisCoolThing, and is even more cynical than ''In From the Cold''. Adapted into a film featuring Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Avery.
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* ''The Looking-Glass War'' (1965): The Department, the Circus's less-successful rival, receives reports of missile buildup in East Germany, and dispatch their runner, John Avery, to investigate. Avery reactivates Fred Leiser, a retired agent in the midst of a midlife crisis, to serve as his eyes and ears behind the Iron Curtain. It was Le Carré's second attempt at DoNotDoThisCoolThing, "Do Not Do This Cool Thing" and is even more cynical than ''In From the Cold''. Adapted into a film featuring Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Avery.
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* TechnicalAdvisor: Is well known for this, and his acknowledgments pages are always entertaining for the presence of journalists, technical experts, diplomats, arms dealers, etc. — many of which he states he cannot name. He began traveling to the various locations in his novels, beginning with ''The Honourable Schoolboy'', which he set in Southeast Asia when virtually every country there was undergoing some kind of civil war.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Le Carré often gives his senior spy antagonists a pair of assistants tasked with keeping eyes on the hero. They are usually young, good looking, terribly friendly and quite competent.
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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: He did this uncannily often.
** ''The Spy Who Came in From the Cold'' depicted the Stasi's inner workings so accurately that Markus Wolf, the Stasi's second-in-command, read the book obsessively for years, suspecting that Le Carré had somehow gotten insider's information about how the Stasi ran its operations.
** ''A Small Town in Germany'', published in 1969, is about a surging right-wing populist movement in West Germany that is seeking stronger ties with Moscow at the expense of unity with Western Europe. The movement is being supported by Russian intelligence as a ploy to destabilize Western Europe and to sow discord between Britain and the [[UsefulNotes/EuropeanUnion European Economic Community]]. While in reality it was the far ''left'' that surged in West Germany during the 1970s, fast forward 45 years and the story sounds very familiar.
** ''The Spy Who Came in From the Cold'' depicted the Stasi's inner workings so accurately that Markus Wolf, the Stasi's second-in-command, read the book obsessively for years, suspecting that Le Carré had somehow gotten insider's information about how the Stasi ran its operations.
** ''A Small Town in Germany'', published in 1969, is about a surging right-wing populist movement in West Germany that is seeking stronger ties with Moscow at the expense of unity with Western Europe. The movement is being supported by Russian intelligence as a ploy to destabilize Western Europe and to sow discord between Britain and the [[UsefulNotes/EuropeanUnion European Economic Community]]. While in reality it was the far ''left'' that surged in West Germany during the 1970s, fast forward 45 years and the story sounds very familiar.
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* CommieNazis: These appear several times.
** Hans-Dieter Mundt, the antagonist of ''In from the Cold'', started his career in the Hitler Youth before joining East German intelligence. The East German jailer who appears towards the end denounces Jews in language that would fit right in at a Nuremberg rally.
** In ''A Small Town in Germany'', Klaus Karfeld, a rising far-right West German politician, runs on his purportedly distinguished service at the Battle of Stalingrad, and tells his followers that Nazi Germany's crimes had been exaggerated by the British to justify the Allies' occupation of West Germany. His movement seeks closer ties to the Eastern Bloc and enjoys the Kremlin's covert support. [[spoiler:It turns out that Karfeld never even served at Stalingrad; he actually ran a concentration camp, and the USSR is concealing this in exchange for his loyalty]].
** Hans-Dieter Mundt, the antagonist of ''In from the Cold'', started his career in the Hitler Youth before joining East German intelligence. The East German jailer who appears towards the end denounces Jews in language that would fit right in at a Nuremberg rally.
** In ''A Small Town in Germany'', Klaus Karfeld, a rising far-right West German politician, runs on his purportedly distinguished service at the Battle of Stalingrad, and tells his followers that Nazi Germany's crimes had been exaggerated by the British to justify the Allies' occupation of West Germany. His movement seeks closer ties to the Eastern Bloc and enjoys the Kremlin's covert support. [[spoiler:It turns out that Karfeld never even served at Stalingrad; he actually ran a concentration camp, and the USSR is concealing this in exchange for his loyalty]].
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* ''The Looking-Glass War'' (1965): The Department, the Circus's less-successful rival, receives reports of missile buildup in East Germany, and dispatch their runner, John Avery, to investigate. Avery reactivates Fred Leiser, a retired agent in the midst of a midlife crisis, to serve as his eyes and ears behind the Iron Curtain. It was Le Carré's second attempt at DoNotDoThisCoolThing%%in-universe context%% DoNotDoThisCoolThing, and is even more cynical than ''In From the Cold''. Adapted into a film featuring Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Avery.
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David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 - 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré, was an English author of thriller novels. He is probably the English language's most respected SpyFiction writer and certainly one of its best-known best-known, with 14 of his 26 novels getting television or cinematic adaptations, some of them more than once.
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* ''Call for the Dead'' (1961): Introduces George Smiley and his agency, the Circus, along with future antagonist Hans-Dieter Mundt serving as a hitman for UsefulNotes/TheStasi. Adapted as ''The Deadly Affair'' (1966), with Creator/JamesMason.
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* ''Call for the Dead'' (1961): Introduces George Smiley and his agency, the Circus, along with future antagonist Hans-Dieter Mundt Mundt, an ex-Nazi now serving as a hitman for UsefulNotes/TheStasi. Adapted as ''The Deadly Affair'' (1966), with Creator/JamesMason.
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* ''The Looking-Glass War'' (1965): The Department, the Circus's less-successful rival, receives reports of missile buildup in East Germany, and dispatch their runner, John Avery, to investigate. Avery reactivates Fred Leiser, a retired agent in the midst of a midlife crisis, to serve as his eyes and ears behind the Iron Curtain. It was Le Carré's second attempt at Do Not Do This Cool Thing DoNotDoThisCoolThing%%in-universe context%% and is even more cynical than ''In From the Cold''. Adapted into a film featuring Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Avery.
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** The Secret Service, historically drawn from old Etonians, Oxbridge and the like, gets along poorly with the more middle-class military and the blue-collar UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard.
** Within the Secret Service, the gentleman-spy types are disdainful of their less traditional colleagues, like working-class men who were recruited for their military records, Jews, Eastern European immigrants, and women. This becomes disastrous when [[spoiler:the blue-blooded Bill Haydon manages to run the Circus for years even though, as Smiley muses, everyone knew deep down that Bill was the traitor]].
** Within the Secret Service, the gentleman-spy types are disdainful of their less traditional colleagues, like working-class men who were recruited for their military records, Jews, Eastern European immigrants, and women. This becomes disastrous when [[spoiler:the blue-blooded Bill Haydon manages to run the Circus for years even though, as Smiley muses, everyone knew deep down that Bill was the traitor]].
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** The Secret Service, historically drawn from old Etonians, Oxbridge Oxbridge, and the like, gets along poorly with the more middle-class military and the blue-collar UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard.
** Within the Secret Service, the gentleman-spy types are disdainful of their less traditionalcolleagues, like working-class colleagues: military men who were recruited for their military records, Jews, distinguished service, Eastern European immigrants, women, and women. Jews. This becomes disastrous when [[spoiler:the blue-blooded Bill Haydon manages to run the Circus for years even though, as Smiley muses, everyone knew deep down that Bill was the traitor]].traitor they'd been hunting]].
** Within the Secret Service, the gentleman-spy types are disdainful of their less traditional
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* BasedOnATrueStory: Most of his books have at least a grain of true events in there; Smiley is thought by some to be based on SIS chief Sir Maurice Oldfield, although Le Carré himself identified author and MI-5 officer John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, as Smiley's model.
** [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/12/john-le-carre-spy-anniversary John himself insists that "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" is not authentic]], despite the hype of the press at the time [[CassandraTruth and his own protests]].
** [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/12/john-le-carre-spy-anniversary John himself insists that "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" is not authentic]], despite the hype of the press at the time [[CassandraTruth and his own protests]].
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* BasedOnATrueStory: Most of his books have at least a grain of true events in there; there, although Le Carré always said that people overstated his books' "authenticity." Smiley is thought by some to be based on SIS chief Sir Maurice Oldfield, although Le Carré himself identified author and MI-5 officer John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, as Smiley's model.
** When ''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'' was published, the press quickly discovered that David Cornwell was Le Carré and that he was a spy, and concluded that he had shown how intelligence really worked. [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/12/john-le-carre-spy-anniversary John himselfinsists insisted that "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" it is not authentic]], despite but this wasn't enough to stop some of his former colleagues from being enraged at him for writing too openly about British intelligence, and in a way that made them look bad.
** It has been repeatedly speculated that Fiedler, a high-ranking East German intelligence officer in ''The Spy Who came in from thehype Cold'', was based on Markus Wolf, the real-life head of the press at the time [[CassandraTruth Stasi's foreign intelligence operations: both Fiedler and his own protests]].Wolf were Jewish, and in an early draft, Fiedler's name was "Wolf." Le Carré always denied this, insisting that he hadn't known who Wolf was and that if he had, he wouldn't have written Fiedler with any sympathy at all.
** When ''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'' was published, the press quickly discovered that David Cornwell was Le Carré and that he was a spy, and concluded that he had shown how intelligence really worked. [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/12/john-le-carre-spy-anniversary John himself
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** Within the Secret Service, the gentleman-spy types are disdainful of their less traditional colleagues, like working-class men who were recruited for their strong military service, records, Jews, Eastern European immigrants, and women. This becomes disastrous when [[spoiler:the blue-blooded Bill Haydon manages to run the Circus for years even though, as Smiley muses, everyone knew deep down that Bill was the traitor]].traitor]].
** One of the reasons for George and Ann Smiley's many marital ruptures is the awkwardness that their social discrepancy causes.
** One of the reasons for George and Ann Smiley's many marital ruptures is the awkwardness that their social discrepancy causes.
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David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 - 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré, was an English author of thriller novels. He is probably the English language's most respected SpyFiction writer of the 20th century, and certainly one of its best-known.
best-known with 14 of his 26 novels getting television or cinematic adaptations, some of them more than once.
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* ''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' (1963): A direct sequel to ''Call for the Dead'' with a newly-promoted Mundt now the main antagonist. Alec Leamas, the head of the West Berlin station of the Circus, is on the verge of being discharged after Mundt kills most of his agents, but he is instead recruited as part of an elaborate plot to bring Mundt down. Adapted into a film staring Creator/RichardBurton as Leamas, with a TV adaptation by the people behind ''Series/TheNightManager'' planned. Both film and book are considered classics. Le Carré wrote it as a response to Creator/IanFleming, telling readers curious about the "secret world" to DoNotDoThisCoolThing. %%in-universe context%%
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* ''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' (1963): A direct sequel to ''Call for the Dead'' with a newly-promoted Mundt now the main antagonist. Alec Leamas, the head of the West Berlin station of the Circus, is on the verge of being discharged after Mundt kills most of his agents, but he is instead recruited as part of an elaborate plot to bring Mundt down. Adapted into a film staring Creator/RichardBurton as Leamas, with a TV adaptation by the people behind ''Series/TheNightManager'' planned. Both film and book are considered classics. Le Carré wrote it as a response to Creator/IanFleming, telling Creator/IanFleming. Its intended message to readers curious about the "secret world" to DoNotDoThisCoolThing. was "DoNotDoThisCoolThing." %%in-universe context%%
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* ''Series/TheNightManager'' (1993): The first post-Cold War novel, and another departure from Stale Beer. A troubled veteran of [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Northern Ireland]] finds himself recruited to help British Intelligence take down a charming, amoral arms dealer. Adapted by the BBC in 2016 as a very expensive [[Series/TheNightManager six-part series]] starring Creator/HughLaurie and Creator/TomHiddleston. In mid-2021, Netflix confirmed that a second series is in production.
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* ''Series/TheNightManager'' (1993): The first post-Cold War novel, and another departure from Stale Beer. A troubled veteran of [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Northern Ireland]] finds himself recruited to help British Intelligence take down a charming, amoral arms dealer. Adapted by the BBC in 2016 as a very expensive [[Series/TheNightManager six-part series]] starring Creator/HughLaurie and Creator/TomHiddleston. In mid-2021, Netflix confirmed reported that a second series is in production.pre-production.
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* InterServiceRivalry: Common, from ''The Looking-Glass War'' onwards. The Secret Intelligence Service, the British military, the Foreign Office, and even UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard often regard one another with mistrust and compromise each other's work.
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* InterServiceRivalry: Common, from ''The Looking-Glass War'' onwards. The Secret Intelligence Service, the British military, the Foreign Office, and even UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard often regard distrust one another with mistrust and compromise another, sometimes even sabotaging each other's work.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Several of his books have come out in advance of the headlines from which they might have been ripped. A few months after ''Single & Single'' was released, there was a minor scandal involving Citibank laundering money for Russian Mobsters. Le Carré's submitted his manuscript for ''Our Game'', a book about a civil war breaking out in the Caucasus, about three months before the rekindling of war in Chechnya. And ''The Constant Gardener'' came out just as the New York Times published a series on the misdeeds of pharmaceutical companies in Africa.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Several of his books have come out Very often, and sometimes seemingly in advance of the headlines from which they might have been ripped. A headlines. Given Le Carré's M.O. of doing extensive field research while writing his books, he probably had some insight into how events were moving in real life.
** ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'' is a retelling of the real-life Kim Philby scandal
** ''A Most Wanted Man'' deals with the USA's policy of extraordinary rendition of European citizens suspected of having jihadist ties, a major diplomatic thorn between the US and Europe at the time.
** ''Agent Running in the Field'' is set amidst the bitter controversy surrounding Brexit, the Trump administration's many scandals, and fears that Russia was using right-wing populist movements to pit the USA, Britain, and the EU against each other.
** As for books that were seemingly published ahead of the headlines: a few months after ''Single & Single'' was released, there was a minor scandal involving Citibank laundering money for Russian Mobsters. LeCarré's Carré submitted his manuscript for ''Our Game'', a book about a civil war breaking out in the Caucasus, about three months before the rekindling of war in Chechnya. And ''The Constant Gardener'' came out just as the New York Times published a series on the misdeeds of pharmaceutical companies in Africa.
** ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'' is a retelling of the real-life Kim Philby scandal
** ''A Most Wanted Man'' deals with the USA's policy of extraordinary rendition of European citizens suspected of having jihadist ties, a major diplomatic thorn between the US and Europe at the time.
** ''Agent Running in the Field'' is set amidst the bitter controversy surrounding Brexit, the Trump administration's many scandals, and fears that Russia was using right-wing populist movements to pit the USA, Britain, and the EU against each other.
** As for books that were seemingly published ahead of the headlines: a few months after ''Single & Single'' was released, there was a minor scandal involving Citibank laundering money for Russian Mobsters. Le
* TheSociopath: Such characters appear again and again, sometimes working for Western intelligence, sometimes working against it, and sometimes as neutral actors. In particular, ''A Murder of Quality'' delves into sociopathy's nature, in the form of [[spoiler:both the victim and the murderer]].
* SnobsVersusSlobs: The British class system is a pervasive theme in his books.
** The Secret Service, historically drawn from old Etonians, Oxbridge and the like, gets along poorly with the more middle-class military and the blue-collar UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard.
** Within the Secret Service, the gentleman-spy types are disdainful of their less traditional colleagues, like working-class men who were recruited for their strong military service, Jews, Eastern European immigrants, and women. This becomes disastrous when [[spoiler:the blue-blooded Bill Haydon manages to run the Circus for years even though, as Smiley muses, everyone knew deep down that Bill was the traitor]].
* SnobsVersusSlobs: The British class system is a pervasive theme in his books.
** The Secret Service, historically drawn from old Etonians, Oxbridge and the like, gets along poorly with the more middle-class military and the blue-collar UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard.
** Within the Secret Service, the gentleman-spy types are disdainful of their less traditional colleagues, like working-class men who were recruited for their strong military service, Jews, Eastern European immigrants, and women. This becomes disastrous when [[spoiler:the blue-blooded Bill Haydon manages to run the Circus for years even though, as Smiley muses, everyone knew deep down that Bill was the traitor]].
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** With the 2021 announcement that ''Series/TheNightManager'' would be getting a second series, it appears that the 'verse might expand after Le Carré's death, but with the project showing signs of DevelopmentHell, this remains to be seen.
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* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: In Le Carré's second novel, ''A Murder of Quality'', it turns out that the victim, one Stella Rode, ran the gamut from taunting people to outright blackmailing them (which is what finally gets her killed).
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* ''Silverview'' (2021): his last novel, published posthumously.
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posthumously, revolving around a civilian bookseller who gets drawn into an MI-6 investigation aimed at stopping leaks.
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* ''Call for the Dead'' (1961): Introduces George Smiley and his agency, The Circus, along with future antagonist Hans-Dieter Mundt serving as a hitman for UsefulNotes/TheStasi. Adapted as ''The Deadly Affair'' (1966), with Creator/JamesMason.
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* ''Call for the Dead'' (1961): Introduces George Smiley and his agency, The the Circus, along with future antagonist Hans-Dieter Mundt serving as a hitman for UsefulNotes/TheStasi. Adapted as ''The Deadly Affair'' (1966), with Creator/JamesMason.
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* ''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' (1963): A direct sequel to ''Call for the Dead'' with a newly-promoted Mundt now the main antagonist. Adapted into a film staring Creator/RichardBurton, with a TV adaptation by the people behind ''Series/TheNightManager'' planned. Both film and book are considered classics. Le Carré wrote it as a response to Creator/IanFleming, telling readers curious about the "secret world" to DoNotDoThisCoolThing.
* ''The Looking-Glass War'' (1965): The Department, The Circus's less-successful rival, receives reports of missile buildup in East Germany, and dispatch their runner, John Avery, to investigate. Avery reactivates a retired agent, Fred Leiser, and sends him into East Germany. It was Le Carré's second attempt at DoNotDoThisCoolThing, and is even more cynical than ''In From the Cold''. Adapted into a film featuring Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Avery.
* ''The Looking-Glass War'' (1965): The Department, The Circus's less-successful rival, receives reports of missile buildup in East Germany, and dispatch their runner, John Avery, to investigate. Avery reactivates a retired agent, Fred Leiser, and sends him into East Germany. It was Le Carré's second attempt at DoNotDoThisCoolThing, and is even more cynical than ''In From the Cold''. Adapted into a film featuring Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Avery.
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* ''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'' (1963): A direct sequel to ''Call for the Dead'' with a newly-promoted Mundt now the main antagonist. Alec Leamas, the head of the West Berlin station of the Circus, is on the verge of being discharged after Mundt kills most of his agents, but he is instead recruited as part of an elaborate plot to bring Mundt down. Adapted into a film staring Creator/RichardBurton, Creator/RichardBurton as Leamas, with a TV adaptation by the people behind ''Series/TheNightManager'' planned. Both film and book are considered classics. Le Carré wrote it as a response to Creator/IanFleming, telling readers curious about the "secret world" to DoNotDoThisCoolThing.
DoNotDoThisCoolThing. %%in-universe context%%
* ''The Looking-Glass War'' (1965): The Department,The the Circus's less-successful rival, receives reports of missile buildup in East Germany, and dispatch their runner, John Avery, to investigate. Avery reactivates a retired agent, Fred Leiser, a retired agent in the midst of a midlife crisis, to serve as his eyes and sends him into East Germany. ears behind the Iron Curtain. It was Le Carré's second attempt at DoNotDoThisCoolThing, Do Not Do This Cool Thing and is even more cynical than ''In From the Cold''. Adapted into a film featuring Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Avery.
* ''The Looking-Glass War'' (1965): The Department,
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* ''A Small Town in Germany'' (1968): Set in the UsefulNotes/{{Bonn}} Republic amidst the political rise of a right-wing populist with an anti-Western message and a shadowy Nazi past. Le Carré wrote it out of fear that unreconstructed Nazis might make a political comeback; today, it has the feel of an AlternateHistory novel.
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* ''A Small Town in Germany'' (1968): Set in the UsefulNotes/{{Bonn}} Republic amidst the political rise of a right-wing populist with an anti-Western message and a shadowy Nazi past. Le Carré wrote it out of fear that unreconstructed Nazis the German far right might make a political comeback; today, it has the feel of an AlternateHistory novel.
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* ''A Most Wanted Man'' (2008): Based on the real-life case of Murat Kurnaz. Adapted into a film starring Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman in one of his last roles.
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* InterServiceRivalry: Common, from ''The Looking-Glass War'' onwards. The SecretIntelligenceService, the British military, the Foreign Office, and even UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard often regard one another with mistrust, and compromise each other's work.
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* InterServiceRivalry: Common, from ''The Looking-Glass War'' onwards. The SecretIntelligenceService, Secret Intelligence Service, the British military, the Foreign Office, and even UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard often regard one another with mistrust, mistrust and compromise each other's work.
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* WhiteCollarCrime: Very common in his post-Cold War novels, particularly money laundering.
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* ''A Murder of Quality'' (1962): Smiley takes a brief retirement and ends up investigating a murder at a [[UsefulNotes/BritishEducationSystem public school]]. Not a spy novel so much as [[OddballInTheSeries a straight murder mystery]] featuring retired spies. Adapted as a TV movie in 1991 with Denholm Elliot as Smiley.
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* ''A Murder of Quality'' (1962): Smiley takes a brief retirement and ends up investigating a murder at a [[UsefulNotes/BritishEducationSystem public school]]. Not Less a spy novel so much as than [[OddballInTheSeries a straight classic British murder mystery]] featuring retired spies. Adapted as a TV movie in 1991 with Denholm Elliot as Smiley.
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* ''Literature/TheQuestForKarla'' trilogy: ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'' (1974), ''The Honourable Schoolboy'' (1977) and ''Smiley's People'' (1979). The first and third were dramatised by Creator/TheBBC (two, considering its setting--mid-1970s SE Asia--was harder to do, but a radio adaptation exists) and starred Creator/AlecGuinness as George Smiley. [[Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy A feature film]] of ''Tinker'' was released in 2011, starring Creator/GaryOldman as Smiley.
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* ''Literature/TheQuestForKarla'' trilogy: ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'' (1974), ''The Honourable Schoolboy'' (1977) and ''Smiley's People'' (1979). The first and third were dramatised by Creator/TheBBC (two, (the second, considering its setting--mid-1970s SE Southeast Asia--was harder to do, but a radio adaptation exists) and starred Creator/AlecGuinness as George Smiley. [[Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy A feature film]] of ''Tinker'' was released in 2011, starring Creator/GaryOldman as Smiley.
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* ''Series/TheNightManager'' (1993): The first post-Cold War novel, and another departure from Stale Beer. A troubled veteran of [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Northern Ireland]] finds himself recruited to help British Intelligence take down a charming, amoral arms dealer. Adapted by the BBC in 2016 as a very expensive [[Series/TheNightManager six-part series]] starring Creator/HughLaurie and Creator/TomHiddleston.
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* ''Series/TheNightManager'' (1993): The first post-Cold War novel, and another departure from Stale Beer. A troubled veteran of [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Northern Ireland]] finds himself recruited to help British Intelligence take down a charming, amoral arms dealer. Adapted by the BBC in 2016 as a very expensive [[Series/TheNightManager six-part series]] starring Creator/HughLaurie and Creator/TomHiddleston. In mid-2021, Netflix confirmed that a second series is in production.
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** With the 2021 announcement that ''Series/TheNightManager'' is getting a second series, it appears that the 'verse is going to expand, at least a bit, after Le Carré's death.
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* ''The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life'' (2008): Le Carré's memoirs, in which he recounts his troubled childhood, his brief time on Her Majesty's Secret Service, and his career as a writer. Readers of his will recognize a lot of real-life experiences that inspired his books.
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* ''The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life'' (2008): (2016): Le Carré's memoirs, in which he recounts his troubled childhood, his brief time on Her Majesty's Secret Service, and his career as a writer. Readers of his will recognize a lot of real-life experiences that inspired his books.
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* BadassIsraeli: A whole operational team of them in ''The Little Drummer Girl''.
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* ''Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl'' (1983): Le Carré leaves the UsefulNotes/ColdWar to focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Perhaps the furthest Le Carré has strayed from "Stale Beer" SpyFiction, with sexy [[HoneyTrap honey traps]] (including the protagonist) and a TallDarkAndHandsome Israeli field agent who recruits said protagonist on Mykonos. Adapted into a film starring Diane Keaton, and a [[Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl much-better-received BBC miniseries]] starring Creator/FlorencePugh, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard, and Creator/MichaelShannon.
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* ''Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl'' (1983): Le Carré leaves the UsefulNotes/ColdWar to focus on terrorism, mostly the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Perhaps the furthest UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict. Le Carré has strayed strays from "Stale Beer" SpyFiction, Beer," with sexy [[HoneyTrap honey traps]] (including the protagonist) and a TallDarkAndHandsome Israeli field agent who recruits said protagonist on Mykonos. Adapted into a film starring Diane Keaton, and a [[Series/TheLittleDrummerGirl much-better-received BBC miniseries]] starring Creator/FlorencePugh, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard, and Creator/MichaelShannon.
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* ''The Secret Pilgrim'' (1990): Was long intended to be Smiley's farewell. A collection of reminiscences from Ned of ''The Russia House''.
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* ''The Secret Pilgrim'' (1990): Was long intended to be Smiley's farewell. A collection of reminiscences from Ned of ''The Russia House''.
House'', through the prism of Smiley giving lectures to new recruits. It ends with Smiley delivering an AuthorFilibuster about the promises and perils of the post-Cold War world.
* ''Series/TheNightManager'' (1993): The first post-Cold War novel,adapted and another departure from Stale Beer. A troubled veteran of [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Northern Ireland]] finds himself recruited to help British Intelligence take down a charming, amoral arms dealer. Adapted by the BBC in 2016 as a very expensive [[Series/TheNightManager six-part series]] starring Creator/HughLaurie and Creator/TomHiddleston.
* ''Series/TheNightManager'' (1993): The first post-Cold War novel,
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* ''Film/TheTailorOfPanama'' (1996): a semi-comical novel about a self-serving British agent in UsefulNotes/{{Panama}} just after the transfer of sovereignty over the Canal Zone. Written as a tribute to Creator/GrahamGreeneAuthor, specifically ''Our Man in Havana''. Adapted into a film starring Creator/PierceBrosnan.
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* ''Film/TheTailorOfPanama'' (1996): a A semi-comical novel about a self-serving British agent in UsefulNotes/{{Panama}} just after the transfer of sovereignty over the Canal Zone. Written as a tribute to Creator/GrahamGreeneAuthor, specifically ''Our Man in Havana''. Adapted into a film starring Creator/PierceBrosnan.
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* ''Film/TheConstantGardener'' (2001): A British diplomat investigates his wife's murder in Kenya, and stumbles upon corruption in the pharmaceuticals industry. Adapted into a film starring Creator/RachelWeisz and Creator/RalphFiennes.
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* ''Film/TheConstantGardener'' (2001): A a British diplomat investigates his wife's murder in Kenya, and stumbles upon corruption in the pharmaceuticals industry. Adapted into a film starring Creator/RachelWeisz and Creator/RalphFiennes.
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* ''The Mission Song'' (2006): set in the [[UsefulNotes/TheCongoWars war-torn Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo]].
* ''A Most Wanted Man'' (2008): based on the real-life case of Murat Kurnaz. Adapted into a film starring Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman in one of his last roles.
* ''Our Kind of Traitor'' (2010): adapted into a film starring Creator/EwanMcGregor, Creator/NaomieHarris, and Creator/DamianLewis.
* ''A Delicate Truth'' (2013): an attempt to arrest a suspected terrorist in UsefulNotes/{{Gibraltar}} goes disastrously wrong, prompting a ruthless coverup attempt by Her Majesty's Government.
* ''A Most Wanted Man'' (2008): based on the real-life case of Murat Kurnaz. Adapted into a film starring Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman in one of his last roles.
* ''Our Kind of Traitor'' (2010): adapted into a film starring Creator/EwanMcGregor, Creator/NaomieHarris, and Creator/DamianLewis.
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* ''The Mission Song'' (2006): set Set in the [[UsefulNotes/TheCongoWars war-torn Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo]].
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* ''Our Kind of Traitor'' (2010):adapted Adapted into a film starring Creator/EwanMcGregor, Creator/NaomieHarris, and Creator/DamianLewis.
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* ''The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life'' (2008): Le Carré's memoirs, in which he recounts his troubled childhood, his brief time on Her Majesty's Secret Service, and his career as a writer. Readers of his will recognize a lot of real-life experiences that inspired his books.
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* ''Our Kind of Traitor'' (2010):
* ''A Delicate Truth'' (2013):
* ''The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life'' (2008): Le Carré's memoirs, in which he recounts his troubled childhood, his brief time on Her Majesty's Secret Service, and his career as a writer. Readers of his will recognize a lot of real-life experiences that inspired his books.
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David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 - 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name '''John le Carré''', was an English author of thriller novels.
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David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 - 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name '''John John le Carré''', Carré, was an English author of thriller novels.
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* ''The Looking-Glass War'' (1965): The Department, The Circus's less-successful rival, receives reports of missile buildup in East Germany, and dispatch their runner, John Avery, to investigate. Avery reactivates a retired agent, Fred Leiser, and sends him into East Germany. It was Le Carré's second attempt at DoNotDoThisCoolThing, and is even more cynical than ''In From the Cold''. Adapted into a film featuring Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Avery.
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* ''The Looking-Glass War'' (1965): The Department, The Circus's less-successful rival, receives reports of missile buildup in East Germany, and dispatch their runner, John Avery, to investigate. Avery reactivates a retired agent, Fred Leiser, and sends him into East Germany. It was Le Carré's Carré's second attempt at DoNotDoThisCoolThing, and is even more cynical than ''In From the Cold''. Adapted into a film featuring Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Avery.
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* GenderFlip: Burr from ''The Night Manager'' is made a woman in the miniseries, played by Olivia Colman, adding the institutional sexism of MI5 and a pregnancy in the middle of the operation to her troubles.
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* GenderFlip: Burr from ''The Night Manager'' is made a woman in the miniseries, played by Olivia Colman, adding the institutional sexism of MI5 MI-5 and a pregnancy in the middle of the operation to her troubles.
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* {{Defictionalisation}}: Some SpySpeak and {{Technobabble}} that le Carré just made up, such as "tradecraft", is now actually used by MI-5 and MI-6 agents in RealLife.
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* {{Defictionalisation}}: Some of the SpySpeak and {{Technobabble}} that le Carré just made up, such as "tradecraft", is now actually used by MI-5 and MI-6 agents in RealLife.
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* {{Defictionalisation}}: Some spy-speak that le Carré just made up, such as "tradecraft", is now actually used by MI-5 and MI-6 agents in RealLife.
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* {{Defictionalisation}}: Some spy-speak SpySpeak and {{Technobabble}} that le Carré just made up, such as "tradecraft", is now actually used by MI-5 and MI-6 agents in RealLife.
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* TheVerse: Some of his non-Smiley novels share characters in common. ''The Russia House'' and ''The Night Manager'' are unambiguously in the same continuity as the [[Literature/TheQuestForKarla Smiley]] stories, for instance, through the characters of Ned and Burr. Interestingly, it was done [[{{Retcon}} retroactively]] - there's no mention of familiar characters in ''The Russia House'', but ''The Secret Pilgrim'' [[ArcWelding reveals Ned first worked under Smiley]] and even revealed how "the Fall" affected the Circus, even down to changing from "The Circus" to plain "the Service".
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:[[spoiler: ''A Legacy of Spies'' omits any mention of Guillium's marriage and unborn child.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:[[spoiler: ''A Legacy of Spies'' omits any mention of Guillium's marriage and unborn child.]]
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* TheVerse: Some of his non-Smiley novels share characters in common. ''The Russia House'' and ''The Night Manager'' are unambiguously in the same continuity as the [[Literature/TheQuestForKarla Smiley]] stories, for instance, through the characters of Ned and Burr. Interestingly, it was done [[{{Retcon}} retroactively]] - there's no mention of familiar characters in ''The Russia House'', but ''The Secret Pilgrim'' [[ArcWelding reveals Ned first worked under Smiley]] and even revealed how "the Fall" affected the Circus, even down to changing from the slighly whimsical nickname of "The Circus" to the more plain "the Service".
"Service".
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* ''Agent Running in the Field'' (2019): Le Carré's first novel of the Creator/DonaldTrump era, it addresses the 21st-century's wave of right-wing populism in the West and Russian political meddling.
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* ''Agent Running in the Field'' (2019): Le Carré's first (and eventually only) novel of the [[UsefulNotes/WithEuropeButNotOfIt Brexit]] and Creator/DonaldTrump era, it addresses the 21st-century's wave of right-wing populism in the West and Russian political meddling.
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* ''Literature/TheQuestForKarla'' trilogy: ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'' (1974), ''The Honourable Schoolboy'' (1977) and ''Smiley's People'' (1979). The first and third were dramatised by Creator/TheBBC (two, considering its setting--mid 1970s SE Asia--was harder to do, but a radio adaptation exists) and starred Creator/AlecGuinness as George Smiley. [[Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy A feature film]] of ''Tinker'' was released in 2011, starring Creator/GaryOldman as Smiley.
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* ''Literature/TheQuestForKarla'' trilogy: ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'' (1974), ''The Honourable Schoolboy'' (1977) and ''Smiley's People'' (1979). The first and third were dramatised by Creator/TheBBC (two, considering its setting--mid 1970s setting--mid-1970s SE Asia--was harder to do, but a radio adaptation exists) and starred Creator/AlecGuinness as George Smiley. [[Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy A feature film]] of ''Tinker'' was released in 2011, starring Creator/GaryOldman as Smiley.
