John Le Carré is no more.
Yesterday's announcement of the death of the spy novel amphitheater, whose real name was David Cornwell, saddened millions of readers.
Himself a secret agent in the service of the British crown, his spy novels were world famous, in particular thanks to his third opus,
The Spy Who Came From the Cold
, which opened to him in 1963 the den of notoriety.
Valdimir Volkoff (who wrote under the pseudonym "Lieutenant X" for his
Langelot
spy series
), Ian Flemming, the father of Agent 007, Richard Sorge, the "flamboyant red dandy" ... The authors and characters of novels espionage flourishes in literature.
This genre has a specific lexical field: do you know the difference between a "double agent" and a "mole"?
Do you know what a "blue rat" is?
The editorial staff suggests that you check it out.