On a visit to Beirut, Le Carré was taken to a building blindfolded and made to wait. But le Carré was hardly at home with the literary circles, nor did he want to be. John le Carré was still serving in British intelligence when he started writing but quit soon afterwards. It is perhaps through the MI6 man Alec Leamas that le Carré showed how espionage was morally bankrupt. Perhaps the best espionage writer of all times, Johne le Carre, born David John Moore Cornwell, died on December 12 at 89.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 25, 2020 08:26 UTC