Which war's humanitarian crisis does the novel calls attention to where the novel is set against the backdrop of chaotic East Congo and the author has worked for both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligent Service?
John le Carré David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), known by the pseudonym John le Carré ( ), is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service, and began writing novels under his pen name. His third novel, "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (1963), became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author.
The Leopard (Reid novel) The Leopard is a novel by Jamaican writer, V. S. Reid. It portrays the hardships of the Kenyan people during the time of the Mau Mau Rebellion. Novels similar to "The Leopard", such as Caroline Elkins’s "Imperial Reckoning" (2005), as well as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s "Petals of Blood" (1977) also reflect events during the Mau Mau uprising. "The Leopard", however, distinct from any other novel of its kind, mainly focuses on the controversies of human nature with respect to the co-existence of violence and hatred between Africans and Europeans.