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Informationen zum Autor Michael Jago read Ancient History and Philosophy at University College Oxford before settling in the USA in 1980. For 15 years he ran an educational travel business, specialising in the battlefields of western Europe and operated the American College of Travel in Los Angeles. When he sold his travel business in 1995 he launched a football magazine that grew from its California base to be published in several states across the southwestern and midwestern USA. After acquiring a further degree as a (very) mature student at Oxford, he has adopted the writing of biography as his career. He lives in both Chicago and south-west France. Klappentext The first biography of the gentleman spy and writer who provided the inspiration for John le Carre's most famous character. 'Competent and fluent, prone to such smooth sentences as 'The greatest irony is that it was to George Smiley, modelled largely on Bingham, that le Caree owed his success.' London Review of Books Zusammenfassung The true story of the man who inspired John le Carre's most famous character! and an amazing life story of an author and spy. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsAcknowledgements viiPreface 1Chapter 1 Ancestry, 1100-1908, and Early Life, 51908-27Chapter 2 Political Awakening, 1927-9 32Chapter 3 Journalism and Marriage, 1929-39 48Chapter 4 Fighting Fascism: MI5, 1940-45 78Chapter 5 Allied Control Council, 1946-8 112Chapter 6 Journalist, 1948-50 136Chapter 7 Return to MI5 and Debut as a Novelist, 1511950-58Chapter 8 The Genesis of George Smiley, 1958-66 182Chapter 9 MI5 Agent Runner and Novelist, 1960-69 196Chapter 10 Disappointments, 1969-79 220Chapter 11 Smiley Triumphant, 1974-82 241Chapter 12 Retirement, 1979-88 260Chapter 13 The Seventh Lord Clanmorris, 1908-88 283Bibliography 293Index 299Picture credits 309
