{"product_id":"the-pigeon-tunnel-stories-from-my-life","title":"The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecounted with the storytelling lan of a master raconteur  by turns dramatic and funny  charming  tart and melancholy. -Michiko Kakutani  The New York Times  The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carr  the legendary author of Tinker  Tailor  Soldier  Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager  now an Emmy-nominated television series starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. John le Carrs new novel  A Legacy of Spies  is now available.  From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War  to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall  le Carr has always written from the heart of modern times. In this  his first memoir  le Carr is as funny as he is incisive  reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether hes writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire or the opening bars of Beethovens Fifth; visiting Rwandas museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide; celebrating New Years Eve 1982 with Yasser Arafat and his high command; interviewing a German woman terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev; listening to the wisdoms of the great physicist  dissident  and Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov; meeting with two former heads of the KGB; watching Alec Guinness prepare for his role as George Smiley in the legendary BBC TV adaptations of Tinker  Tailor  Soldier  Spy and Smileys People; or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in The Constant Gardener  le Carr endows each happening with vividness and humor  now making us laugh out loud  now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood.  Best of all  le Carr gives us a glimpse of a writers journey over more than six decades  and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945323327541,"sku":"ByrdShop_0735220778","price":27.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780735220775.jpg?v=1769883343","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-pigeon-tunnel-stories-from-my-life","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}