le Carré

And perhaps he fantasized about himself as a character out of Ludlum or Le Carré.

John le Carré is notorious for taking the establishment for which he once toiled as a spy at its lowest estimation.

Elsewhere, there were new novels from John le Carré and Donna Tartt, her first in over a decade.

I feel like I am in a John Le Carré novel and scurry into the tavern in hopes of avoiding an “international incident.”

John Le Carré, especially, has strongly influenced the secret service vocabulary.