Spent time in Bremen with Kurnaz and describes how he was finally freed with onlyĪ pair of jeans, underwear and a T-shirt, guarded on the flight home by ten US With German help Kurnaz was eventually proven innocent.

Hook' by low-level American thugs acting on orders from American thugs in Accused without trial or evidence ofīeing a terrorist, he was shipped to Guantanamo, held for five years, and LeĬarré writes,'electrocuted, beaten senseless, waterboarded and hung from a Of the disastrous American invasion of Iraq. Germany was no one special and quite powerless except he was a classic victim Only afterwards, back in my hotel bedroom, did Iįish out my mangled notepad and attempt to make sense of what I had heard or Soldier Spy who detests 'flattery and mistrusts its praise,' and Hollywood's Richard Burton, Martin Ritt, SydneyĪnd women of power drew me because they were here, and because I wanted to know Prison for convicted Palestinians and their allies, Alec Guinness, hisīrilliant if diffident and reticent George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor Here he writes about men and women, ordinary and Very Important,Įlena Bonner, Rupert Murdoch, Josef Brodsky, Nicholas Elliott, Le Carré's fellow spy and double agent Kim Philby's best friend, a Major Kauffmann, the Stories that evoke the lies and myths of our ambiguous, confrontational and bewildering times. His unique genre of novels, as I am, admire Le Carré for his exemplary spy The people who have colored his life, his conman, thief and twice-convictedįather Ronnie, and Olive, his mother, who fled her abusive husband, and abandonedįive year old David (Le Carré's real name is David Cornwell), leaving reviewersĪnd critics to analyze forever the psychological price of parental desertion Wives and four sons while leaving his last chapter, the longest in the book, to In a series of recollections he says virtually nothing about his two Tunnel is a quasi-memoir and predecessor to a possible future and fuller John Le Carré's forceful and absorbing book The Pigeon

The Pigeon Tunnel by J. LE CARRE