The Quiet American (1955) could be considered as one of Graham Greene’s most distinguished books it is an epochal novel written during the phase of the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union. In this essay, I analyze the themes of his cold-war novels and discuss the impact of the end of the cold war on his recent works. Until the end of the cold war, he wrote several spy novels dealing with the East-West conflict and continued to publish spy novels after the cold war ended. His literary breakthrough came in 1963 with his novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. He grew up as the son of a con man who involved him in his criminal activities he taught at Eton and worked for the Foreign Office and the British intelligence services MI5 and MI6. " David John Moore Cornwell, le Carré's real name, was born on 19 Octo-ber 1931 in Poole, Dorset. Curiously, some have dismissed him as a superior thriller writer, which of course he is, but he is also much more. Michael Vestey underlines this statement in The Spectator: " I think le Carré is one of the finest of British postwar novelists. John Halperin, for instance, claims: " John le Carré is the only writer of espionage 'thrillers' today who is also a writer of literature " (17). In contrast to his literary comrades-in-arms such as Ian Fleming and Len Deighton, he has even managed to be acknowledged not only as a genre writer but also as a writer of highbrow literature. John le Carré has maintained his position as the world's premier spy writer for more than forty years.
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