The preeminent master of spy fiction David Cornwell, a.k.a. John le Carré, died last December. Since then we’ve had a chance to remember how much his writing changed the way we think of espionage storytelling, and indeed international espionage itself. After all, he popularized a vocabulary — Joes, Moles, lamplighters, babysitters, honey traps, Moscow Center, the Circus…
Read the article by James Carter: https://thechinaproject.com/2021/02/05/what-a-john-le-carre-novel-can-teach-about-china/
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