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The master chronicler of our age, john le carré's work has come to define not only the best of spy fiction but the very colour of our times. Broke and working as a tour guide in germany, rootless englishman ted mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. Later, he went to lincoln college, oxford and graduated in modern languages.
After attending the universities of bern and oxford, he taught at eton and spent five years in the british foreign service.