Agent of False Trails with Oscar Buzz Around a New Movie Version of His Book the Constant Gardener, John Le Carre Is Happy. With Oscar Buzz Around a New Movie Version of His Book the Constant Gardener, John Le Carre Is Happy. But, in a Rare Interview, the Former Spy Admits That He Still has a Devious Side. By Anne Simpson

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EVEN on quiet days a good spy gives nothing away.

Through force of habit John le Carre is keeping stumm about his latest novel, the twentieth just delivered to his publishers in London. Not that le Carre is any longer a spook. As David Cornwell, his real name, he left the British intelligence service 43 years ago, although it was only in 1993, during a book tour, that he publicly admitted what everyone had always suspected. By then, he judged, it would have been coy to remain evasive about his ownership of the stealthy life-skill so manifest in his fiction.

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Agent of False Trails with Oscar Buzz Around a New Movie Version of His Book the Constant Gardener, John Le Carre Is Happy. With Oscar Buzz Around a New Movie Version of His Book the Constant Gardener, John Le Carre Is Happy. But, in a Rare Interview, the Former Spy Admits That He Still has a Devious Side. By Anne Simpson

But today, when we talk, le Carre is expansive and thrilled at howwell another of his books, The Constant Gardener, has made the challenging passage from page to cinema screen.

The movie, starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz, and directed by the Brazilian film-maker, Fernando Meirelles, has been chosen to open the London Film Festival on October 19. In Venice last month, at the world's oldest film festival, its showing received a ...

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