The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Alex 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.|Alex 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...|Superbly constructed with an atmosphere of chilly hell|The best spy story I have ever read|The master storyteller ... has lost none of his cunning|I have re-read The Spy Who Came In From The Cold over and over again since I first encountered it in my teens just to remind myself how extraordinary a work of fiction can be.|One of those very rare novels that changes the way you look at the world. Unflinching highly sophisticated superb.|John le Carré (Author) John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the University of Bern then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5 & 6). He published his debut novel Call for the Dead in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold secured him a worldwide reputation which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir The Pigeon Tunnel was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel A Legacy of Spies appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020. His posthumous novel Silverview was published in 2021.William Boyd (Introducer) William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra Ghana and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of sixteen highly acclaimed bestselling novels and five collections of stories. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France. His most recent novel Trio was a Sunday Times bestseller.