The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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Synopsis
In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin Wall, Alec Leamas watches as his last agent is shot dead by East German sentries. For Leamas, the head of Berlin Station, the Cold War is over. As he faces the prospect of retirement or worse – a desk job – Control offers him a unique opportunity for revenge. Assuming the guise of an embittered and dissolute ex-agent, Leamas is set up to trap Mundt, the deputy director of the East German Intelligence Service – with himself as the bait. In the background is George Smiley, ready to make the game play out just as Control wants.
Release date: January 18, 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books
Print pages: 240
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Drawing on Le Carres own first hand experience of the spy world, this is a dark sombre story set in Berlin in the East Germany of the cold war sixties.
Don’t expect a happy ending, Le Carre rarely deals in happy endings, but if you want haunting atmosphere and drama from a master story teller, this is it.
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