Playbill
August, 1977
In 1963, a little-known young English writer named John Le Carré published a novel called The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. It became an instant best seller and was followed by a steady succession of best sellers (among them The Looking Glass War and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) that established Le Carré as the reigning master of the spy thriller. So when we were offered the chance to extract something from Le Carré's forthcoming novel, The Honourable Schoolboy (to be published by Alfred A. Kn...
