Maybe the greatest writer of spycraft ever. And no more George Smiley. Very sad today.

Rest in Peace David Cornwell
(John le Carre was his "pen" name)

I first read "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" when I was a young teenager. It "turned me on to" the genre. For a while, I read every "espionage" novel I could find.

But no one did it with quite the style of John le Carre.