The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
by:
John le Carré (author)
"Le Carre is simply the world's greatest fictional spymaster."NEWSWEEKFor Leamas the espionage business has become an hermetic, enclosed world, detached from outside reality. He has watched his last agent being shot, crossing from East to West Berlin, and his death marks the end of the Circus'...
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"Le Carre is simply the world's greatest fictional spymaster."NEWSWEEKFor Leamas the espionage business has become an hermetic, enclosed world, detached from outside reality. He has watched his last agent being shot, crossing from East to West Berlin, and his death marks the end of the Circus' East German network. But Control is planning an operation against the head of East German Intelligence. And Leamas is to be the instrument, set in East one last time....
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345377371 (0345377370)
Publish date: March 22nd 1992
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Series: George Smiley (#3)
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The Cold War was a murky conflict, so murky that it’s hard to tell what one is fighting for or what strategies are beyond the pale. London and Moscow are both convinced that they know what’s right and necessary. The people on the ground, however, have no time for ideology. People like Alec Leamas ar...
Well here I am, sitting in my hotel room on a wet Singapore morning wanting to write a review on something, though I am only halfway through the book that I am currently reading (not that it's a bad book – some guy just surfed a tidal wave into Los Angeles – it's just that it is really long). Okay, ...
Good, but still a first novel. Not enough George Smiley.
The book gets off to a gripping and suspenseful start. At the height of the Cold War around 1962, veteran British operative Alec Leamas waits for one of his agents to cross the East German border. He can only watch as the man is gunned down before his eyes within feet of making it across. With that ...
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