(2023-11-30) John Le Carres Son Penning New George Smiley Spy Novel

John Le Carre's Son Penning New George Smiley Spy Novel. John le Carré‘s famous spy character George Smiley hasn’t retired quite yet. Nick Harkaway, le Carré’s son, is writing a new Smiley novel that will publish globally in fall 2024

The book will explore the decade of Smiley’s life in between the final scenes of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and the start of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The polite and self-deprecating character works for the shadowy British intelligence agency ‘The Circus’ (MI6) and is considered a foil to the showier James Bond.

Le Carré (real name David Cornwell) died in December 2020 aged 89. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, published in 2016 to acclaim and was adapted into a doc by Errol Morris. It screened at Telluride, Toronto, New York and London before selling to Apple TV+, which launched it in October. His final book, Silverview, was published posthumously in 2021.

Harkaway (born Nick Cornwell) is the author of books such as Gnomon, The Gone-Away World, Tigerman and Titanium Noir and writes the Jack Price novels under the pen name Aidan Truhen. His brothers, Simon and Stephen Cornwell, run The Ink Factory, which has adapted le Carré novels The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl into TV series and A Most Wanted Man as a feature.