A private spy: the letters of John le Carré 1945-2020

About the book

John le Carré was a defining writer of his time. From The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which changed our understanding of the secret agent from guns and Martinis to shadows and moral ambiguity, to Agent Running in the Field, in which modern Britain is mired in political corruption, he catalogued our sins and recounted the journey of the Anglosphere into the twenty-first century. In these letters, le Carre' reveals himself to be a consummate correspondent as well as a master novelist. A Priv...Show more