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John le Carre was educated at the University of Berne (where he studied German literature for a year) and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in modern languages. From 1959 to 1964 he was a member of the British Foreign Service, serving first as Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Bonn and subsequently as Political Consul in Hamburg. He started writing novels in 1961, and since then has published twenty-one titles.
Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard. * Sunday Telegraph * Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense. * Observer * The greatest spy novelist of all time ... astounding works of the imagination. -- Jake Kerridge * Daily Telegraph * Brilliant, popular, intelligent, thrilling, suspenseful, angry, original, masterful writing. Can't be topped. -- Armando Iannucci An extraordinary writer who brought literary lustre and lived insight to the spy yarn. -- Ian Rankin One of those writers who will be read a century from now. -- Robert Harris His Smiley novels are key to understanding the mid-20th century. -- Margaret Atwood What Joseph Conrad started, John le Carre enshrined and made modern. That is the real achievement of his great novels and why they will endure ... we should see him as our contemporary Dickens. -- William Boyd * New Statesman * Brilliant. Realistic. Constant suspense * Observer * Intelligent, thrilling, surprising ... makes most cloak-and-dagger stuff taste of cardboard * Sunday Telegraph *
