John Le Carré, formerly known as David Cornwell, was born in the United Kingdom in 1931. He studied at the University of Bern and Oxford and taught French and German at Eaton College. At the age of 18, he was recruited by the British military intelligence unit to spy on East Berlin; in 1958 he worked at the MI5 of the British Security Agency and began writing. In 1963, the third novel, "Blind's Shadow," came out, and well-known novelist Graham Green praised: "This is the best spy novel I've ever read!" This established the status of a literary master and turned to full-time writing. . Over the past 50 years, Le Carré has lived in London and Cornwall and has worked hard. He has written 24 novels to date, 4 of which have been selected as "Top 100 Crime Reasoning Novels" by the MWA (American Association of Reasoning Writers). He was selected as one of the "Top Ten Spy Novels" by MWA's top ten genre masterpieces. One of the good English novelists