Secret Life Of John Le Carre

At the insistence of its subject, Adam Sisman’s official biography of John le Carré, published in 2015, omitted any mention of his marital infidelities. Based on the testimony of his lovers, this sequel reveals how, despite a seemingly happy marriage, the former spy conducted a string of affairs whose secrecy, in his own words, ‘produced… a duality & a tension that became almost a necessary drug for my writing’.