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According to Adam Sisman, the character of Esterhase was partly inspired by the Hungarian emigre and book publisher [[André Deutsch]]: {{blockquote|When David [i.e. Le Carre] came to write his novel ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'', he would draw on Deutsch for his character Toby Esterhase, who like his original would speak his own form of English.|<ref >Adam Sisman, ''John Le Carre: the Biography'' (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), 314. {{ISBN|978 1 4088 2792 5}}.</ref>}}
Le Carre himself described [[double agent]] [[George Blake]] as another part-inspiration, feeling some—perhaps misplaced—sympathy for "the wretched man" on account of his status as a foreigner ("half a Dutchman and half a Jew") in the British intelligence establishment.<ref>{{cite book |last1=le Carré |first1=John |title=Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy |date=7 June 2011 |publisher=Penguin |location=Introduction |isbn=978-1-101-52878-5 |edition=1991 Paperback |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MFEajdUgSnMC
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