![]() ![]() Mortimer (let us note for the record that he is officially Sir John, and richly deserves the honor, but this column's surly populism discourages the use of honorifics, even for writers and ex-Beatles) is 81 now and has written more than a dozen Rumpole novels and short-story collections, as well as many other novels, plays and memoirs. For several decades, while George Smiley was trying to win the Cold War, Rumpole has been trying to make sense of the English legal system, matrimony and, most recently, old age, which he views as essentially comic - at a certain point, God decrees that you can no longer put your socks on. ![]() ![]() Today, we have le Carre's slightly older, more lighthearted contemporary, John Mortimer, presenting his much-beloved barrister, Horace Rumpole, as a young man. Two weeks ago we looked at John le Carre's early portrait of his master spy, George Smiley. ![]()
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