from the master of spy thrillers, John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War.
Above all, he can tell a tale'
Sunday Times. '
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.
In le Carre'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.
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.
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.
Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment.
He has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles.
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.
Alec Leamas is tired.
This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by the author and an introduction by William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart.
from the master of spy thrillers, John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War
