Posted on 12/13/2020 2:38:30 PM PST by Borges
LONDON — John le Carré, whose exquisitely nuanced, intricately plotted Cold War thrillers elevated the spy novel to high art by presenting both Western and Soviet spies as morally compromised cogs in a rotten system full of treachery, betrayal and personal tragedy, died on Saturday in Cornwall, England. He was 89.
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L O L !
RIP.
You shouldn’t say anything bad about someone who dies.
Le Carre is dead...Good.
The russians or chinese got to him.
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