EAN: 9780241771037

LE CARRÉ JOHN THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

From the master of spy thrillers  John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a
gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War  published as a beautiful
Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first time   Alec 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 and 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 Carré's
breakthrough work of 1963  the spy story is reborn as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are
caught up in politics beyond their imagining.  'A portrait of a man who has lived by lies and
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 and compassionate conviction. Above
all  he can tell a tale'  Sunday Times

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