John Le Carre

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1962
  • Latest Book:
    October 2021
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About the Author

John le Carré is the nom de plume of David John Moore Cornwell, who was born in 1931 in Poole, Dorset, and was educated at Sherborne School, at the University of Berne (where he studied German literature for a year) and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in modern languages.

He taught at Eton from 1956 to 1958 and was a member of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 1964, serving first as Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Bonn and subsequently as Political Consul in Hamburg. He started writing novels in 1961, and since then has published twenty-one titles.

John le Carre, a spy turned novelist who became the preeminent writer of espionage fiction in English, has died at age 89.

Born: October 19, 1931 - Poole, United Kingdom
Died: December 12, 2020 (age 89) - Cornwall, United Kingdom

Full Series List in Order

George Smiley

1 - Call for the Dead (Aug-1962)
2 - A Murder of Quality (Aug-1963)
3 - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)
4 - The Looking Glass War (Jun-1965)
5 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974)
6 - The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)
7 - Smiley's People (1979)
8 - The Secret Pilgrim (Jan-1991)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Call for the Dead

    George Smiley - 1

    The world-famous undercover operative, George Smiley, is bitter, weary--he has seen too much and done too much--yet he cannot refuse one last desperate call for his services. Smiley returns to solve a baffling case involving a suspect British civi...

  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

    George Smiley - 3

    From the author of THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY and SMILEY'S PEOPLE, a thriller about an intelligence agent who has decided to put his life of espionage behind him, but first there is one more dangerous assignment to accomplish...

  • A Murder of Quality

    George Smiley - 2

    George Smiley, emerges from retirement to solve a baffling, bloody crime. He becomes entangled with a woman as dangerous as she is charming... and a tottering, brilliant man haunted by a perverse secret of his past. Smiley pursues the murderer amid t...

  • The Looking Glass War

    George Smiley - 4

    From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies.  "You are either good or bad, and both are dangerous." It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handle...

  • A Small Town in Germany

    A man is missing. Harting, refugee background, a Junior Something in the Britisl Embassy in Bonn. Gone with him are forty-three files, all of them Confidential or above It is vital that the Germans do not learn that Harting is missing, nor that th...

  • The Naive and Sentimental Lover

    "I have visited Bohemia and got away unscathed." Aldo Cassidy is an entrepreneurial genius. At thirty-nine, he dominates the baby pram market and rewards his success with a custom Bentley. But Aldo's bourgeois life is upended by a chance encounte...

  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    George Smiley - 5

    A modern masterpiece, TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet equivalent, as he's assigned to identify and destroy the double agent--a mole--who has burrowed his way into the top echelo...

  • The Honourable Schoolboy

    George Smiley - 6

    In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. As the fall of Saigon looms, master spy George Smiley must outmaneuver his S...

  • Smiley's People

    George Smiley - 7

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Our Kind of Traitor; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. Tell Max that it concerns the Sandman…A very...



  • The Little Drummer Girl

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Our Kind of Traitor; now a miniseries on AMC starring Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Shannon, and Florence Pugh."You want to catch the lion, first...

  • The Perfect Spy

    John Le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him aunprecedented worldwide acclaim. Magnus Pym, Britian's premier spy, has ...

  • The Secret Pilgrim

    George Smiley - 8

    The acclaimed novel featuring George Smiley, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseries  The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies ...

  • The Russia House

    World powers clash for dominance as a beautiful Russian woman carries out a staggering mission and a derelict English publisher becomes the unlikely recipient of the Soviet Union's top defense secret. Reprint....

  • Night Manager

    Now an AMC miniseries • The acclaimed novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carré, the legendary author of sophisticated spy thrillers, is at the top o...

  • Our Game

    With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, dis...

  • The Tailor of Panama

    He is Harry Pendel: Exclusive tailor to Panama's most powerful men. Informant to British Intelligence. The perfect spy in a country rife with corruption and revolution. What his "handlers" don't realize is that Harry has a hidden agenda of his own. D...

  • Single & Single

    “Any reader who feared that the end of the Cold War would deprive Mr. le Carré of his subject can now feel a measure of relief. If anything, his subject of East-West misunderstanding has grown richer, and he now possesses vast new territories to m...

  • The Constant Gardener

    John le Carre's exquisite new novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle. Her husband, Justin, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive, and what he learns makes him...

  • Absolute Friends

    A ferocious new novel from the master: when a man's good heart is his worst enemy. . . By chance and not by choice, Ted Mundy, eternal striver, failed writer, and expatriate son of a British Army officer, used to be a spy. But that was in the good...



  • The Mission Song

    Full of politics, heart, and the sort of suspense that nobody in the world does better, The Mission Song turns John Le Carre's laser eye for the complexity of the modern world on turmoil and conspiracy in Africa. Abandoned by both his Irish father an...

  • A Most Wanted Man

    New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love or...

  • Our Kind of Traitor

    The unrivaled master of spy fiction returns with a taut and suspenseful of dirty money and dirtier politics. For nearly half a century, John le Carré's limitless imagination has enthralled millions of readers and moviegoers around the globe. Fr...

  • A Delicate Truth

    A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense c...

  • Masquerade

  • Disfigured Love

  • A Legacy of Spies

    The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book -- his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living...

  • Agent Running in the Field

    Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one mor...

  • Silverview

    In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years -- the secret world itself.Named a most anticipated book of the fall by the Associated Press, TIME, People, Entertainment Week...

  • The Fledgling Spy

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  • The Spy in His Prime

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  • The Spy Who Came of Age

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Award-Winning Books by John Le Carre

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1965 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Le Carre has published 31 books.

John Le Carre does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Silverview, was published in October 2021.

The first book by John Le Carre, Call for the Dead, was published in August 1962.

Yes. John Le Carre has 1 series.
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