To the 89 years old British writer John Le Carré passed away (pseudonym chosen by David Cornwell), uno de los máximos exponentes de la literatura de espionaje y responsable de títulos como “El topo” Y “El jardinero fiel”.

The square, who also wrote the best-seller "The Spy Who Came from the Cold" and "The Russia House", died in the British county of Cornwall after suffering a disease unrelated to coronavirus, as reported today on his Twitter account by the one who was his literary agent, Jonny geller.

In the statement, Geller said that Le Carré died in the hours of Saturday night, after pneumonia.

The particularity that this author knew was that he had belonged to the Secret Service and that experience as a former agent would later be turned into the pages of his texts.

With his third novel, “El espía que surgió del frío” (1963), logró un enorme éxito y le convirtió en “el más famoso escritor de espías en el mundo”, in Geller's words. Tanto esta obra como “El topo” (1974) starred agent George Smiley, probably his most famous creation, and were successfully adapted to the cinema.

Otra de sus novelas más reconocidas y difundidas fueron “El sastre de Panamá” Y “El jardinero fiel’ (2001), which also became acclaimed films.

It was while teaching at the elite private school in Eton, cradle of Conservative power in the UK, when he was recruited by the British Foreign Service. From a small MI5 office (the internal intelligence agency) and Curzon Street (London), David Cornwell captured, instructed and taught spies on the other side of the Iron Curtain drawn to the Western side. There he began to write, under the pseudonym John Le Carré.