I cannot wait for readers to enjoy this collection, marvellously edited by his son Tim, as much as I have.”Ī Private Spy will be published on 3 November.
She added: “We are back in his company once again, listening to that inimitable voice: his fiercely acute observations, his humour, his tenderness, his rage. Strangelove) that the usually dead serious director John Boorman (of Deliverance and Point Blank fame) struggles to convey as sophisticatedly as Le Carre does. Mary Mount, le Carré’s editor at Penguin, said that reading the letters was “a very thrilling and moving experience”. As can be inferred from the above description, this story is a scathing satire of imperialism, and it demands a very specific tone of irreverent indignation (think Dr. He died in 2020, aged 89, and A Private Spy will mark his second book published posthumously: his novel Silverview came out last year. Le Carré previously had a career in British intelligence, working for MI5 and MI6 during the 1950s and 1960s before turning to writing, earning critical acclaim around the world for novels such as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Night Manager. I hope others will enjoy the journey as much as I have, and laugh, cry, and sometimes wince with me as they read these letters and travel with my father.” His friendships, his obsessions and his incisive wit were no surprise, nor the sheer joy of his writing voice: I recognised the man I knew in every syllable. He added: “My father was brave in the way that he spoke for what he believed in, brave in the places and subjects he tackled in his writing, and brave in the way he faced illness.
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