Most unusually, Adam Sisman, who published a biography of the celebrated espionage novelist John le Carré (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) in 2015, is to publish another biography of the author just eight years later, and three years after le Carré’s death, writes Gary Dalkin.
Sisman earlier book, was ‘officially authorised’, and in 2016 Sisman wrote in the that while the book was, ‘written with my subject’s cooperation, it would be disingenuous to pretend that there was noto be published in October by Profile Books, promises to disclose material that Sisman was ‘obliged to withhold’ while le Carré was ‘very much alive and looking over my shoulder’, and that it will reveal ‘a hidden life of secrecy, passion and betrayal’. The blurb promises the book will document how le Carré ‘conducted a string of love affairs over five decades’.
