John Bingham

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John Michael Ward Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris of Newbrook, was an engineer, former MI5 spy, and an English novelist who published thrillers, detective novels, spy novels, and screen plays. - Wikipedia Following a spell as a journalist, Bingham was recruited into MI5 by Maxwell Knight. One of his younger colleagues was David Cornwell, who was inspired by Bingham’s success as an author of fiction to become a novelist himself, under the name John le Carré. Le Carré subsequently acknowledged that Bingham was a key inspiration for his most famous character, the spy George Smiley. [From the Introduction by Martin Edwards to *The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories*, 2018]

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