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The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John...
"The greatest irony is that it was to George Smiley, modelled largely on Bingham, that le Carr owed his success."--London Review of Books Following the film success of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carr 's hero George Smiley has come to be seen...
The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John...
Investigator, interrogator, agent runner: the perfect inspiration for the perfect spy. This first full-length biography traces the life of the remarkable John Bingham, the man behind John le Carr 's George Smiley. The heir to an Irish barony and a spirited young journalist, John...
The Man Who Was George Smiley
After the Iraq War, when the reputation of Britain's spooks hit an all-time low, John le Carr 's intellectual hero George Smiley came to be seen as the perfect spy, a man who would never allow intelligence to be misused for political purposes. Le Carr had revealed shortly...
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