Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - October 30, 2014

Greatest Living Writer?

John le Carre is 82 years old and still remarkably productive.  He wrote the screenplay adaptation of his book, A Most Wanted Man in Philip Seymour Hoffman's last film.  His most recent book,  A Delicate Truth was one of Wellesley Books' Summer Picks and has sold very well at the store.
  
While these recent articles in The Guardian and the Boston Globe  make the case for le Carre as the greatest writer of his generation, he seems the easy pick for the best spy writer ever.  The only debate seems to be which book is his best.  My favorite, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, is a popular choice.  However, this article in The New Yorker makes the case for A Perfect Spy which I considered for the group but, at 800 pages, deemed impractical.