Article: John le Carre is prescient again with `Gardener,' now a film.(The Constant Gardener)

Byline: Steven Rea

David Cornwell, the English author and ex-foreign service officer (read: spy) better known by the formidable nom de plume John le Carre, is on the phone from "war-torn London" _ a phrase he uses with a mix of irony and rue.

It is the day that a Brazilian electrician, mistaken for a suicide bomber, has been shot and killed in the Underground, a day after the abortive bomb attacks that threw a scare into the populace, and two weeks since four suicide bombers killed 52 people.

Terrorism is on le Carre's mind, and on the collective mind of the city. In a lecture the writer of 19 novels gave in 1999 in Liverpool, he discussed ...

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