John Le Carre
Despite the French pen name, novelist John le Carre wasa bout as British as the Union Jack. He was a former British intelligence officer who started writing spy fiction in the early sixties. Due to his past as a foreign officer, le Carre was unable to publish books under his real name of David Cornwell. Unlike the James Bond series , le Carre’s protagonists are more ambiguous and his spy novels are more psychological than about physical action.
