The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré

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Having used the Far East as the theater of his operations in previous novels, le Carre now moves into the Middle East to develop a different picture of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the terrorist escalation continues. The Little Drummer Girl narrates many bomb explosions: Bonn, Zurich, Leyden, Bad Godesberg among them, with all the immediacy of a newscast.

Le Carre has both an Israeli and a Palestinian hero, but...

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John le Carr Biographies (4)

John Le Carre

872 words, approx. 3 pages

The British author John Le Carre (born David Cornwell, 1931) was regarded by many as the foremost spy novelist of his time because his works go beyond being mere thrillers. They recreate the gritty re... Read more

John le Carre

13,753 words, approx. 46 pages

[This entry was updated by John L. Cobbs (Kutztown University) from the entry by Joan DelFattore (University of Delaware) in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 212-227... Read more

John Le Carre

9,157 words, approx. 31 pages

Biography EssayJohn le Carre (pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell) is the author of realistic spy stories resembling those of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene. His best-known novels are The Spy Who C... Read more

John le Carré

6,194 words, approx. 21 pages

British novelist David Cornwell, writing under the pseudonym of John le Carré, is, according to Jason Cowley in New Statesman & Society, the "natural heir of Joseph Conrad and Graham Gr... Read more