John le Carre, who probed murky world of spies, dies at 89
John le Carre, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim to a genre critics had once ignored, has died. โJohn le Carre has passed at the age of 89. โSo I wrote a book in great heat which said โa plague on both your houses,โโ le Carre told the BBC in 2000. Le Carre said in 1990 that the fall of the Berlin Wall had come as a relief. Itโs simply unbelievable.โIn 1954, le Carre married Alison Sharp, with whom he had three sons before they divorced in 1971.