This was my first Le Carre novel, and frankly speaking I am a bit confused. I cant say that I hated it or I liked it very much. All I can say is that IT WAS DIFFERENT. I have grown up on spy thrillers by Fredrick Forsyth, Robert Ludlum and others, and always, in their books, there is a lot of moveme...
I don't normally read spy thrillers, but after this book, I'm certainly going to read more by John le Carré. This is a relatively short book that packs a lot into its 230 pages. Alec Leamas is trying to leave the work of espionage and "come in from the cold". The book walks us through his attempt an...
This is, perhaps, the greatest spy novel ever written. Clocking in at just over 200 pages, it reads like a gunshot - I finished it in less than eight hours of reading. The tension builds and rolls so brilliantly, so effortlessly, and le Carré has such a talent for deception that the ending does in...
There are several important questions one could ask in life. For instance: where do you get green eggs and ham? Why do we have catalogues and not dogalogues? Or even why is it that it's a penny for my thoughts but I get my say for two cents worth? But one of the most important questions anyone can a...
Some people may regard this book as a modern classic. It is certainly the book which brought John le Carre to the fore. Before I continue, I'd like to give you a warning. Please skip the Introduction by William Blake, as it will completely wreck the pleasure that you should get from the story as it ...
My first Le Carre, and not being a big fan of Cold War fiction, I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. I very much liked the wheels within wheels and the way you had to stay alert to follow what was going on (which was not at all what you were being told by the narrator). I was also surpri...
Having just indulged my sweet tooth with Ian Fleming's spy candy, I sampled the more refined pleasures of John le Carré, who wrote a tense spy thriller without any gadgets or heroics or sultry seductresses. Instead, Alec Leamas is a middle-aged alcoholic on the verge of retirement from the spy game;...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (henceforth referred to as “The Spy”) is one of le Carré’s second novel and the one that made him famous. His first, Call for the Dead in fact preludes to this book, introducing some of the back story that is not so clear in The Spy. However, as I have not read Call...
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