#JohnLeCarre was a brilliant story teller & a master writer. If you haven't read his work, do so & marvel at his ability to marshal the English language. He was more than a spy novelist. He illuminated the fundamental tensions of human interaction. Thank you, David Cornwall. RIP.
And damn 2020 for taking from us, one of our best (and one of our my favorite) authors. It is sad to contemplate that there will be no more #JohnLeCarre novels. No one crafted a tale or played with verb tense better than he did.
It’s *Cornwell*. Apologies for the typo.
In most of #JohnLeCarre’s novels, he deftly explored the fundamental issue of ends justifying means and questioned what should be a person’s truest loyalties. He used espionage as his grand metaphor. But that was just the stage for his intriguing contemplations. A great loss.
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