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After attending the universities at berne and oxford, he taught at eton and spent five years in the british foreign service. Premier spy novelist john le carrs first novel introduces the worlds most famous undercover operative, george smiley, who, though bitter and weary with all he has seen and done, cannot refuse one last desperate call for his services. Thats what publishers weekly called the spy who came in from the cold in 2006, fortythree years after the books publication. These are quite possibly the worst three books in the author s repertoire, and are remarkably similar at that. Following the success of this novel, he left mi6 to become a fulltime author.
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