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The Stacks: How The Berlin Wall Inspired John le Carré’s First Masterpiece

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Intelligence officer and budding novelist John le Carré was so devastated by the Berlin Wall that he wrote ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ in a white-hot six weeks.

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