John le Carré’s time in Hong Kong and the spy novelist’s ‘shame’ at a detail he got wrong about the colony


Characters the British writer met in Hong Kong made it into one of his Cold War spy novels, as did an error he admitted cribbing from an out-of-date guidebook and which taught him to get the small stuff right.

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