The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) by John le Carré is a Cold War spy novel famous for its intricate plot and its portrait of the West's espionage methods as inconsistent with Western values. In 1965, Martin Ritt directed a cinematic adaptation, with Richard Burton as protagonist Alec Leamas, British secret agent.
The novel received excellent reviews and was a best selling book; in 2006, Publishers Weekly named it "best spy novel of all-tim...
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) by John le Carré is a Cold War spy novel famous for its intricate plot and its portrait of the West's espionage methods as inconsistent with Western values. In 1965, Martin Ritt directed a cinematic adaptation, with Richard Burton as protagonist Alec Leamas, British secret agent.
The novel received excellent reviews and was a best selling book; in 2006, Publishers Weekly named it "best spy novel of all-time".
“The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” is set in a time of heightened East-West tensions during the Cold War.
As a sequel to Call for the Dead, it builds upon a key element of its predecessor. In the earlier book, Hans-Dieter Mundt is an agent of the Abteilung, the East German Secret Service, doing the dirty, thug jobs in England for the East German Steel Mission who escapes to East Germany when unmasked. In The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Mundt is no longer a low-ranking field agent but has risen high in the Abteilung for his successful...
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