![]() Le Carré went on to write several standalone novels, as well as the George Smiley series and a memoir. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (1953) Fleming comes with a warning, too: for most of my life, I believed you really could murder someone by covering them with gold paint. ![]() His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963 Folio Society 2017) secured him worldwide acclaim, which was further consolidated by the success of his trilogy Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974 Folio Society 2009), The Honourable Schoolboy (1977 Folio Society 2010) and Smiley’s People (1979 Folio Society 2006). He taught at Eton from 1956 to 1958 and was a member of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 1964, serving first as Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Bonn and subsequently as Political Consul in Hamburg. Books by John le Carré (Author of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold) Books by John le Carré John le Carré Average rating 3. ![]() He was educated at Sherborne School, 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. John le Carré is the nom de plume of David John Moore Cornwell, who was born in 1931 in Poole, Dorset. ![]()
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