The Secret Pilgrim | John Le Carré

David John Moore Cornwell, aka John Le Carré, (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020) was a British author.

He is best known for his spy and espionage novels, a number of which were successfully adapted for film or television.

During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), bringing that experience to bear in his novel writing.

Many consider Le Carre to be one of the greatest novelists of the post WWII era.

Le Carre was a multi-award winner, including a finalist of the Man Booker Prize in 2011.

His novels, many best sellers, included:

• Call for the Dead (1961)
• A Murder of Quality (1962)
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)
• The Looking Glass War (1965)
• A Small Town in Germany (1968)
• The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (1971)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)
• The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)
• Smiley's People (1979)
• The Little Drummer Girl (1983)
• A Perfect Spy (1986)
• The Russia House (1989)
• The Secret Pilgrim (1990)
• The Night Manager (1993)
• Our Game (1995)
• The Tailor of Panama (1996)
• Single & Single (1999)
• The Constant Gardener (2001)
• Absolute Friends (2003)
• The Mission Song (2006)
• A Most Wanted Man (2008)
• Our Kind of Traitor (2010)
• A Delicate Truth (2013)
• A Legacy of Spies (2017)
• Agent Running in the Field (2019)
• Silverview (2021)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy; and Smiley's People formed a trilogy of books.

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