I'd like to start by saying "woah" and various other exclamations of surprise and wonder. This was a book that completely changed the way I view spy novels. My previous prejudice stems from quite an obvious source - Ian Fleming - who never gave me anything much of what I would want to read about or ...
I read this during a recent cold-war-spy-literature binge. I enjoyed the story, but the ending was certainly abrupt. I'd like to read more of le Carre's work. I liked the detail about the British spy agencies during the Cold War: the vocabulary and lifestyle detail makes the book more intense.
This was an ok spy story, but good enought to be one of the books on the list of 1001 books to read before you die?? This bothered me enough to pull out the 1001 book to see why this one was chosen. The reason it gives, is that this book elevates itself from the usual thriller because the spy is b...
A grainy depiction of cold-warriors whose values have become so compromised as to be interchangeable, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold has reasonable claim to being the most authentic and compelling espionage novel ever created. There’s an existentialist feeling about the moral fog which surrounds ...
A good use of the double agent/double cross angle to get a secret agent to do something that is in opposition to his intentions. It is fairly expository and ultimately clever but grim.
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