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Adam Sisman: John le Carre [2015] hardback ZIFIC and quirky illustrationsOver half a century since The Spy Who came in from the Cold made John le Carre a worldwide, bestselling sensation, David Cornwell, the man behind the pseudonym, remains an enigma. He has consistently quarried his life for his writing, and his novels seem to offer tantalizing glimpses of their author but in the narrative of his life fact and fiction have become intertwined, and little is really known of one of the world's most successful writers. In