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| Original Title: | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ISBN13 9780743442534 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | George Smiley #3 |
| Characters: | Alec Leamas, Elizabeth Gold, Karl Riemeck, Fiedler, Peter Guillam, George Smiley, Hans-Dieter Mundt |
| Setting: | Berlin(Germany) |
| Literary Awards: | Somerset Maugham Award (1964), Edgar Award for Best Novel (1965), CWA Gold Dagger Award for Fiction (1963), The CWA Dagger of Daggers (2005) |
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In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he created a world unlike any previously experienced in suspense fiction. With unsurpassed knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carre brings to light the shadowy dealings of international espionage in the tale of a British agent who longs to end his career but undertakes one final, bone-chilling assignment. When the last agent under his command is killed and Alec Leamas is called back to London, he hopes to come in from the cold for good. His spymaster, Control, however, has other plans. Determined to bring down the head of East German Intelligence and topple his organization, Control once more sends Leamas into the fray -- this time to play the part of the dishonored spy and lure the enemy to his ultimate defeat.Identify Containing Books The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley #3)
| Title | : | The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley #3) |
| Author | : | John le Carré |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | November 27th 2001 by Scribner (first published 1963) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Spy Thriller. Espionage. Classics. Suspense. Crime |
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Having just indulged my sweet tooth with Ian Fleming's spy candy, I sampled the more refined pleasures of John le Carré, who wrote a tense spy thriller without any gadgets or heroics or sultry seductresses. Instead, Alec Leamas is a middle-aged alcoholic on the verge of retirement from the spy game; burned out, embittered, and about to be cashiered for a string of failures while running England's spy network in Cold War Berlin. He's recruited for one final mission: to target the dangerous EastA few years ago the Broadway musical Wicked came to Nashville and my family and I went to experience this production at the Tennessee Performing Arts Theater. I have actually seen a musical on Broadway (Rock of Ages) and I was impressed. But this was something else entirely. I was awestruck by the talent: the singing, the acting, the stage production. As you may imagine, this was not my usual forte. Oh, I can walk across a room and avoid dragging my knuckles (most days) but for the most part a
Perhaps the greatest spy novel ever, Le Carré has us in the heart of the cold war with a dicey exchange of spies. It is chilling (as cold as the title) and realistic and hair-raising. A true classic!
What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? Theyre a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists, and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs? Checkpoint Charlie where it all begins.John Le Carre A.K.A. David John Moore Cornwell while in college started working for MI5 and then later transferred to MI6. He worked as a consul (code for spy)
Well first, the fact that this book was written within 5-6 weeks is impressive. I was amazed from John le Carré's afterword that this book was not only written during that short span but also under a lot of work related and personal stress. This was a slow burn kind of spy novel with the British agent Alec Leamas who is given an assignment to infiltrate East German Intelligence and bring down its leading man. Well the setting is during the cold war, the book itself was published in 1963. The
What a marvelous spy thriller this is! I can see why it's considered such a classic.I'm late to the John le Carré book party, but I've been enjoying my time here so far. I loved his memoir The Pigeon Tunnel, and I thought his novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was brilliant. When his latest book, A Legacy of Spies, was released and got positive reviews, I decided to go back and catch up on the George Smiley series.Smiley plays a minor role in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, but it doesn't matter
Im working my way through the wonderful world of John le Carré's magnificent George Smiley books, so far in quick succession. After the slightly anomalous second book 'A Murder of Quality', which is a murder mystery set in a top English boys public school, I was pleased to be back in the more familiar world of Cold War spying and espionage. However, to describe 'The Spy Who Came In from the Cold' as a George Smiley book is a bit misleading as he barely appears. Instead, it is Alec Leamas, an
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