The spy who came in from the cold / John Le Carré ; foreword by Joseph Kanon.
On its publication In 1964, John le Carre's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold forever changed the landscape of spy fiction. Le Carre combined the inside knowledge of his years in British intelligence with the skills of the best novelists to produce a story as taut as it is twisting, unlike any previously experienced, which transports us back to the shadowy years in the early 1960s when the Berlin Wall went up and the Cold War came to life. When the last agent under his command is killed in Berlin, Alec Leamas, weary and disillusioned, is called back to London by his spymaster, Control, hoping to finally come in from the cold. Instead, Control has one last assignment for Leamas: to adopt the role of a disgraced agent and return behind the Iron Curtain as bait to bring down the head of East German intelligence. Layering plot over plot, le Carre reveals a dirty game of betrayal and assumed identity in which individuals are expendable and neither side is honorable. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold was hailed as a classic as soon as it was published. With an illuminating new foreword by bestselling author Joseph Kanon, it remains one today. A new hardcover edition of the book Graham Greene called "the best spy story I have ever read."
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- ISBN: 0802714544
- ISBN: 9780802714541
- Physical Description: xiv, 223 pages ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Walker, [2005]
- Copyright: ©2005
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General Note: | Series information from Fantastic Fiction. Originally published: Victor Gollancz, 1963. |
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Subject: | Smiley, George (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Intelligence officers > Fiction. Cold War > Fiction. Berlin (Germany) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Spy stories. |
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John le Carré was born in 1931 in Poole, England. His celebrated espionage novels include Call for the Dead; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; A Small Town in Germany; Smileyâs People; The Tailor of Panama; The Constant Gardener; and Absolute Friends.