Pigeon Tunnel (Audio book) - Stories From My Life

From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times. The Pigeon Tunnel gives us a glimpse of the writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life to his fictional characters.

About the author

John le Carré (Author, Reader)
John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the University of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5 & 6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020. His posthumous novel, Silverview, was published in 2021.

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Product details

• Authors: John le Carre, John le Carré, John Le Carre, John le Carré
• Assisted by: John le Carré (Reader / Narrator), John le Carré (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 08.09.2016
• EAN: 9780241977545
• ISBN: 978-0-241-97754-5
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 142 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Penguin Audio Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, Autobiography: literary, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Espionage & secret services, Espionage and secret services, Autobiography: writers, c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period)