LETTERS
John le Carré – David Cornwell as he then was – grew up among the lies of his fraudster father Ronnie. He then entered a world of secrets, reporting on leftist students when he was at Oxford before working in intelligence for MI5 and MI6. Deception was his domain, and as much as he hated Ronnie he worried about coming from the same “mad genes-bank”. Instead, he became a novelist; a less damaging way to tell lies.
Le Carré
