Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and 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. He must travel deep into the heart of
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: a novel
✍ Scribed by John le Carré
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Group US
- Year
- 2016;2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 239 KB
- Edition
- 50th Ann Ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 110157318X
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✦ Synopsis
**From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ; Our Kind of Traitor ; and The Night Manager , now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carr e's new novel , A Legacy of Spies, is now available.
The 50th-anniversary edition of the bestselling novel that launched John le Carre's career worldwide **
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...
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