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David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), pen name John le Carré, is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for the British intelligence services MI5 and MI6, when he began writing novels under a pen name. His third novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) became an international best-seller, and remains one of his best known works. Following the novel's success, he left MI6 to become a full-time author.
Le Carré has since established himself as an important writer of espionage fiction. In 1990, he received the Helmerich Award which is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust. In 2008, The Times ranked Le Carré 22nd on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2011, he won the Goethe Medal, a yearly prize given by the Goethe Institute.
On 19 October 1931, David John Moore Cornwell was born to Richard Thomas Archibald (Ronnie) Cornwell (1906–75) and Olive (Glassy) Cornwell, in Poole, Dorset, England. He was the second son to the marriage, the first being Tony, two years his elder, now a retired advertising executive; his younger half-sister is the actress Charlotte Cornwell; and Rupert Cornwell, a former Independent newspaper Washington bureau chief, is a younger half-brother. John le Carré said he did not know his mother, who abandoned him when he was five years old, until their re-acquaintance when he was 21 years old. His relationship with his father was difficult, given that the man had been jailed for insurance fraud, was an associate of the Kray twins (among the foremost criminals in London) and was continually in debt. A biographer reports,
"His father, Ronnie, made and lost his fortune a number of times due to elaborate confidence tricks and schemes which landed him in prison on at least one occasion. This was one of the factors that led to le Carré's fascination with secrets."
The character 'Rick Pym', the scheming con-man father of protagonist 'Magnus Pym' in his later novel A Perfect Spy (1986), was based on Ronnie. When father Ronnie died in 1975, le Carré paid for a memorial funeral service but did not attend.
Cornwell's formal schooling began at St Andrew's Preparatory School, near Pangbourne, Berkshire, then continued at Sherborne School; he proved unhappy with the typically harsh English public school régime of the time, and disliked his disciplinarian housemaster, Thomas, and so withdrew. From 1948 to 1949, he studied foreign languages at the University of Bern in Switzerland. In 1950 he joined the Intelligence Corps of the British Army garrisoned in Austria, working as a German language interrogator of people who crossed the Iron Curtain to the West. In 1952, he returned to England to study at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he worked covertly for the British Security Service, MI5, spying upon far-left groups for information about possible Soviet agents.
When Ronnie declared bankruptcy in 1954, Cornwell quit Oxford to teach at a boys' preparatory school; however, a year later, he returned to Oxford and graduated, in 1956, with a First Class Honours Bachelor of Arts degree. He then taught French and German at Eton College for two years, afterwards becoming an MI5 officer in 1958; he ran agents, conducted interrogations, tapped telephone lines, and effected break-ins.[8] Encouraged by Lord Clanmorris (who pseudonymously wrote crime novels as 'John Bingham'), and whilst an active MI5 officer, Cornwell began writing Call for the Dead (1961), his first novel. Moreover, Lord Clanmorris was one of two inspirations – Vivian H. H. Green being the other – for George Smiley, the spymaster of the Circus. As a schoolboy, Cornwell had first met Green when he was the Chaplain and Assistant Master at Sherborne School (1942–51), and then later as Rector at Lincoln College.
In 1960, Cornwell transferred to MI6, the foreign-intelligence service, and worked under 'Second Secretary' cover in the British Embassy at Bonn; he later was transferred to Hamburg as a political consul. There, he wrote the detective story A Murder of Quality (1962) and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), as 'John le Carré' ('John the Square', in French ), a pseudonym required because Foreign Office officers were forbidden to publish in their own names. Cornwell left the service in 1964 to work full-time as a novelist, as his intelligence officer career was ended by the betrayal of British agents' covers to the KGB by Kim Philby, a British double agent (of the Cambridge Five). Le Carré depicts and analyses Philby as the upper-class traitor, code-named Gerald by the KGB, the mole George Smiley hunts in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974). Credited by his pen name, Cornwell appears as an extra in the 2011 film version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, among the guests at the Christmas party seen in several flashback scenes.
In 1954, Cornwell married Alison Ann Veronica Sharp; they had three sons, Simon, Stephen and Timothy; they divorced in 1971. In 1972, Cornwell married Valérie Jane Eustace, a book editor with Hodder & Stoughton. They have one son, Nicholas, who writes as Nick Harkaway. Le Carré has resided in St Buryan, Cornwall, UK, for more than forty years where he owns a mile of cliff close to Land's End.
In 1998, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) from the University of Bath.
In 2012, he was awarded the Degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa by the University of Oxford.
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1411964.John_le_Carr_ |
The Karla Trilogy
John Le Carre - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - The Honourable Schoolboy (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - Smiley's People (read by Michael Jayston)
Other
John Le Carre - The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - The Russia House (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - The Constant Gardener (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - A Perfect Spy (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - Call For The Dead (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - The Little Drummer Girl (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - A Most Wanted Man (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - A Delicate Truth (read by John Le Carre)
John Le Carre - The Looking Glass War (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - Our Kind Of Traitor (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - A Murder Of Quality (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - The Tailor Of Panama (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - Absolute Friends (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - A Small Town In Germany (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - The Night Manager (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - Our Game (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - The Mission Song (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - The Secret Pilgrim (read by Michael Jayston)
John Le Carre - Single And Single (read by Michael Jayston)
Code:
The Karla Trilogy
http://rapidgator.net/file/ab74e5eb12d31d7596d3cdac950a7032/Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c153b99c8135dd175bbc29a72d9e6a57/The_Honourable_Schoolboy.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d1a472ce6062b2aa3f675a9cf5f7e2db/Smileys_People.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/d1f2186d727947f7ed23e1836c8da908/The_Spy_Who_Came_In_From_The_Cold.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/278159ea1bb8a47856f8cb60aa8a9c59/The_Russia_House.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6828066f5f5ba1b68dc4eb503288a487/The_Constant_Gardener.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/da18b32c12ab4787a468402e29e54b32/A_Perfect_Spy.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6686b6efbea6f9b6c9475ca4062a49eb/Call_For_The_Dead.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a945b3cc5f38096ce57f6302ac66876e/The_Little_Drummer_Girl.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/566aae045f3c80282335c588be23251d/A_Most_Wanted_Man.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/eab824f0b3dc26c5df80cc5e4305e8db/A_Delicate_Truth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9fdaf1a987d26d07ab840a1581abd981/The_Looking_Glass_War.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7542c857ddc708744cc677ed210f7fad/Our_Kind_Of_Traitor.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/48432cfefc269d3f9dbb121fada49fc3/A_Murder_Of_Quality.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/64f9241367854e9a690c90514e5c4323/The_Tailor_Of_Panama.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f2c9cc67094ffda7ab280ee1cedc52d2/Absolute_Friends.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/47cbcc326842dbe4c96d2ae26719324c/A_Small_Town_In_Germany.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2f73d274d9dbc80adceda8be63ed0a17/The_Night_Manager.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/99d2768fec7dde2897f23b9d1067005f/Our_Game.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9d1b8a9e2142b9d08c8f4364fa6a9841/The_Mission_Song.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3c278061989618d3a1e6c9a2978a6196/The_Secret_Pilgrim.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/940562c2566b4d2c9554ef1465e91435/Single_And_Single.rar.html |
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