The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

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The classic Cold War thriller published as a Penguin Essential for the first time Alec Leamas is tired It's the 1960s he's been out in the cold for years spying in Berlin for his British masters & 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' Superbly constructed with an atmosphere of chilly hell' JB Priestley' The best spy story I have ever read' Graham Greene' The master storyteller has lost none of his cunning' A N Wilson'I have re-read The Spy Who Came In From The Cold over & over again since I first encountered it in my teens just to remind myself how extraordinary a work of fiction can be' Malcolm Gladwell' One of those very rare novels that changes the way you look at the world Unflinching highly sophisticated superb' William Boyd