tailor
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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
"The day I first wore that shirt was the day I learned clothes possess power," he wrote in his memoir Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2024
There are few better spy novels than “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
In his latest film, “The Pigeon Tunnel,” Morris sits down with the celebrated spy novelist John le Carré, the enigmatic author of “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2023
She had a lucrative side business as a Tailor, seeing to the wrinkles and jowls of the wealthy Kerch, but her chief source of income came from altering moods.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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