This is not an autobiography, but a collage of memories, skillfully compiled by a luminary of the detective genre. John Le Carré in The Pigeon Tunnel tells not the story of his life, but stories from his life, and he has a lot of them. Germany in the early sixties, Russia in the early nineties, conversations with Margaret Thatcher and Yasser Arafat, attempts to work with Stanley Kubrick and Francis Ford Coppola, meetings with famous intelligence officers and spies and memories of parents - a mother who left the family and an adventurer father. p>