![]() ![]() His posthumous novel Silverview was published in 2021. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. At the end of the Cold War, le Carre widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. The Constant Gardener by John le Carr The most peaceble people will do the most terrible things when theyre pushed. ![]() He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. ![]() A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. Below are two reviews from The New Republic and The Chicago Tribune. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. Constant Gardener, the movie based on the novel by John le Carre, about the pharmaceutical industry’s immoral and even criminal activities, opened nationwide. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. Put simply, The Constant Gardener is the story of a minor diplomat, Justin Quayle, whose young, idealistic wife is murdered because of her investigations into pharmaceutical experiments on. ![]()
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