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

5.0

Full disclosure: huge le Carré fan. After having read just about all of his novels (some more than once) over the last 30 years, this memoir is especially enjoyable. It provides the back stories to many of them. I figured that, as he's pretty old, maybe he sensed his end might not be too far off and wanted to make sure he got this stuff down before it was too late. But then he follows up with another novel after this. There goes that theory. Anyway, the stories from his own life about the people he's known that led him to write his novels are as emotional and interesting as the fictional versions. How this book would play for a reader unfamiliar with le Carré's work is hard for me to say. I'd certainly recommend reading all the fiction first and save this for last.