Alex Leamas is tired. Its the 1960s hes 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 mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have done. In le Carres 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. This title is presented with a new introduction by William Boyd & an afterword by Le Carre himself.
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It is 1962: the height of the Cold War & only months after the building of the Berlin Wall. Alec Leamas is a hard-working hard-drinking British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters. His agents are either on the run or dead victims of the ruthlessly efficient East German counter-intelligence officer Hans-Dieter Mundt. Leamas is recalled to London
- where to his surprise instead of being washed up & consigned to a desk hes offered a chance to have his revenge by becoming a pawn in a brilliantly-conceived plot to destroy Mundt. But in order to do so he has to stay out in the cold a little longer... Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley & with a distinguished cast including Brian Cox as Alec Leamas this tense compelling dramatization perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carres taut intricate thriller.
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The Cold War is at its most chill. Alec Leamas a seasoned British Intelligence officer whose entire East German network has been arrested or shot leaves West Berlin for London believing his career is over. But his master Control knows that Leamas is good for a last mission: one that will allow him to take his revenge on the ruthless East German counterintelligence chief who has killed or imprisoned his agents. & lurking discreetly in the background George Smiley will be pulling the operational strings. ...

In June 1952 a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising but that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable. The daughter of a feckless Polish aristocrat & his wealthy Jewish wife she would become one of Britain's most daring & highly decorated special agents. Having fled to Britain on the outbreak of war she was recruited by the intelligence services long before the establishment of the SOE & took on mission after mission. She skied into occupied Poland served in Egypt & was later parachuted into occupied France. Her quick wit courage & determination won her release from arrest more than once & saved the lives of several fellow officers including one of her many lovers just hours before he was due to be executed by the Gestapo. More importantly perhaps the intelligence she smuggled to the British hidden inside her gloves was a significant contribution to the Allied war effort & in recognition of her success she was awarded the George Medal the OBE & the Croix de Guerre. Charismatic difficult & fearless Christine was an extraordinary woman & exercised a mesmeric power of those who knew her. ...

In June 1952 a woman was murdered by an obsessive colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising but that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable. The daughter of a feckless Polish aristocratic & his wealthy Jewish wife she would become one of Britain's most daring & highly decorated secret agents. Having fled Poland on the outbreak of war she was recruited by the intelligence services long before the establishment of the SOE & took on mission after mission. She skied over the hazardous High Tatras into Poland served in Egypt & North Africa & was later parachuted into Occupied France where an agent's life expectancy was only six weeks. Her courage quick wit & determination won her release from arrest more than once & saved the lives of several fellow officers including one of her many lovers just hours before their execution by the Gestapo. More importantly perhaps the intelligence she gathered was a significant contribution to the Allied war effort & her success was reflected in the fact that she was awarded the George Medal the OBE & the Croix de Guerre. ...

Whether youre just a bit nosy or you want to launch a full-scale investigation of your neighbours this handbook teaches you everything you need to know. There are practical sections on codes ciphers invisible ink & signalling as well as guidance on drops & safe houses. The handbook teaches you how to spot when somebody is lying & how to lie effectively youself. There are sections on successful disguise & how to structure a spy ring including pyschological recruitment strategies psychic surveillance & spotting moles. There is also technical advice about constructing bugging devices & setting traps. Herbie Brennan interlaces the facts with anecdotes about real-life spies making this handbook an entertaining armchair read as well as an essential tool for any budding (or currently serving) MI6 operative. ...

After Dunkirk the British Army was broken the country isolated & invasion imminent. German Military Intelligence was sat the task of recruiting collaborators from among Welsh nationalists to sabotage military & civilian installations ahead of the landing. Strategic deception was one of the few weapons left. To fool the Germans into believing Britain was ready & able to repel invaders when in fact it had only the weapons salvaged from Dunkirk MI5 invented an imaginary cell of Welsh saboteurs led by a retired police inspector. ...

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