John le Carré has published over twenty novels. In October 2008 on BBC Four he told Mark Lawson that his best novels were The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Tailor of Panama, and The Constant Gardener.
For the Telegraph, Jon Stock named his ten favorite le Carré novels, including:The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1963)
The plot of The Spy Who Came In From The





