5mThriller author John le Carré dies aged 89
With the death of John le Carré, the world of espionage has lost its greatest raconteur, forged from his own life as a spy in Germany in the 1950s.
Ten years ago, we went to visit him at his cliff-top home in Cornwall, where we talked of his fictional hero George Smiley, and his own real-life unmasking by the British spy Kim Philby who defected to Moscow.
He said it was to be his last interview, but he lived long enough to give a few more.