A review by andrewspink
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carré

5.0

John le Carré has always been one of my favourite authors and so I started this autobiography with some anticipation. I was not disappointed. I learnt that his books were far more thoroughly researched and based on personal experience, also the post.cold war ones, than I had imagined. Like his fiction, this collection of anecdotes is very well written. I especially enjoyed the way that he slips from straight forward narrative to his clipped spy-thriller style as he takes us into some more action packed events, so that it almost feels like it is fiction. I will re-read some of his old books with new eyes now.