The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

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From the master of spy thrillers John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love & betrayal at the height of the Cold War This Penguin Modern Classics edition

Includes:: an afterword by the author & an introduction by William Boyd author of Any Human Heart Alex Leamas is tired It's the 1960s he's been out in the cold for years spying in the shadow of the Berlin Wall for his British masters He has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles Now Control wants to bring him in at last
- but only after one final assignment He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany & betray his country a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended Leamas's mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have done In le Carre's breakthrough work of 1963 the spy story is reborn as a gritty & terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining 'A portrait of a man who has lived by lies & subterfuge for so long he's forgotten how to tell the truth' Time' He can communicate emotion from sweating fear to despairing love with terse & compassionate conviction Above all he can tell a tale' Sunday Times