id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4604 John le Carré - Wikipedia .html text/html 6197 875 77 Although Call for the Dead evolves into an espionage story, Smiley's motives are more personal than political.[18] Le Carré's third novel, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works; following its publication, he left MI6 to become a full-time writer. Most of le Carré's books are spy stories set during the Cold War (1945–91) and portray British Intelligence agents as unheroic political functionaries aware of the moral ambiguity of their work and engaged more in psychological than physical drama.[21] The novels emphasise the fallibility of Western democracy and of the secret services protecting it, often implying the possibility of east–west moral equivalence.[21] They experience little of the violence typically encountered in action thrillers and have very little recourse to gadgets. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4604.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4604.txt