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John le Carré, Famed Author Who Reinvented Spy Novels, Dies at 89

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He defined the Cold War era and fearlessly spoke truth to power in the decades that followed,” Geller said.Born David John Moore Cornwell in Dorset, England, le Carré served in both the Secret Service and Secret Intelligence Service in the 1950s and ’60s, bringing his knowledge of the intelligence world into his many notable espionage novels (most of which were set during the Cold War), the greatest of which is the 1963 best-seller “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.”Following that success, he went on to pen “The Looking Glass War,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” “Smiley’s People,” “The Little Drummer.

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