´Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I´m sitting now.´ The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre´s memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his ´secret sharers´ - the men and women, who inspired some of his most enthralling novels - and a testament to the author´s extraordinary engagement with the last half-century. The reader is swept along not just by the chilling winds of the Cold War or by the author´s frightening journeys into places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the author´s inimitable voice. In this astonishing work we see our world, both public and private, through the eyes of one of this country´s greatest writers.
