LONDON: John le Carre, who has died aged 89, shot to fame during the chilly depths of the Cold War as master of the spy thriller, before evolving to become a scathing chronicler of the moral costs of globalisation.
Age did not wither the writer’s anger at the establishment, with Brexit — Britain’s divisive departure from the European Union — breathing new life into his espionage oeuvre.
Speaking to AFP in December 2019, he urged Britons to “join the resistance” as they prepared to vote in a general election.
In the event, the country elected Boris Johnson as prime minister, defying le Carre’s characterisation of the Conservative leader as “pig-ignorant” in his most recent (2019) novel, Agent Running in the Field.
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