Big loss, he was so much more than a spy thriller author, he was a scholar of the German language and literature, lead an interesting life and always had fascin

Big loss, he was so much more than a spy thriller author, he was a scholar of the German language and literature, lead an interesting life and always had fascinating interviews. And his books weren’t so much spy novels as a gritty, realistic look into the world of espionage, crime, British high society etc. Its often pointed out but who but Le Carre could have come up with George Smiley, a soft spoken, frumpy bureaucrat who gets cheated on by his wife and yet is somehow heroic.