John le Carré and the Cultural Shifts in Spy Fiction

Readers of "The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My Life," the new memoir by acclaimed novelist John le Carré, will find plenty of insight into how his novels came to be, his own shift in careers from espionage to full-time writer, and the process by which several of those books were adapted for film. This makes for an insightful look into the makings of his own work and the ways in which his fiction has been translated onto screens large and small. But it also makes for an interesting window into a somewhat contradictory phenomenon: the way that the politics of spy fiction has evolved over time.
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