The new release, A Legacy of Spies, is a kind of prequel to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963), the book that made le Carré famous and changed spy novels forever. In A Legacy of Spies ...

John le Carré made a man of me. I remember going to see “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” in 1965 thinking it would be another “Goldfinger.” Or even the TV equivalent, “The Man From ...

So I won't. But there’s a problem with taking on A Legacy of Spies (Viking, 264 pp., *** out of four stars), the latest thriller by the revered and seemingly unstoppable 85-year-old John le Carré.

Our understanding of espionage was forever changed in the 1960s with the arrival of George Smiley, John le Carré’s “breathtakingly ordinary” spy who toiled at MI6, a.k.a.

John Le Carre’s newest novel, “A Legacy of Spies,” brings back the man who is perhaps Le Carre’s most famous of spies, George Smiley, though mostly in name and recollection. Smiley is ...

Although I don’t subscribe to John le Carre’s leftist worldview, I’ve been reading and enjoying his spy novels since I was a teenager in the 1960s. I’m not fond of most of his post-Cold ...

A Legacy of Spies, by John le Carré (Viking). The first George Smiley novel in more than twenty years, this thriller revisits intelligence operations from le Carré’s masterpieces “The Spy ...

Book world marketing being what it is, John le Carré's new novel A Legacy of Spies is inevitably being taglined as “the return of George Smiley!” – shorthanding that le Carré's great ...

What follows is a truthful account, as best I am able to provide it, of my role in the British deception operation, codenamed Windfall, that was mounted against the East German Intelligence ...