tailor
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His work at MI5 and MI6 went on to inspire a further 25 books with many of them, including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Little Drummer Girl, adapted for screen.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026
Handwritten notes on “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” illustrate how he drew on his espionage experience to create the fictional Soviet spymaster Karla, detailing tactics for disguising undercover work and infiltrating British intelligence as a mole.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
Film, he did, ad infinitum, particularly enjoying the spy genre in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” which garnered him his first Oscar nomination as lead actor in 2012, long before Jackson Lamb appeared on his radar.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2025
But before his death, the author of “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” sat down with documentarian Errol Morris for a series of probing interviews.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 15, 2023
Even timid little Chellappen Tailor at Chungam Bridge insisted on charging bush-shirt rates for her sari blouses.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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