John le Carré (1931–2020) was the author of twenty-five novels, the most recent of which was Agent Running in the Field. Throughout his career, much of his work was adapted for film, television and radio, including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1969) and The Constant Gardener (2005).
‘It is a journalistic conceit to pretend you are unmoved by people. But I am not a journalist and I am not superior to this encounter.’
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