Maybe he'll come some other time. We can have the Polizei contact the Agency: you can be back here in twenty minutes.
Maybe he'll come some other time. No," said Leamas, "it's nearly dark no. "But you can't wait forever; he's nine hours over schedule.
At Cambridge Circus he stopped the cab a hundred yards from the office, partly from habit and partly to clear his head in anticipation of Maston’s febrile questioning
At Cambridge Circus he stopped the cab a hundred yards from the office, partly from habit and partly to clear his head in anticipation of Maston’s febrile questioning. He showed his pass to the constable on duty and made his way slowly to the lift. The Duty Officer greeted him with relief as he emerged, and they walked together down the bright cream corridor.
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he created a world unlike any .
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. And yet-this is part of what makes the book great-The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is an excellent spy story too, with an intricate plot which will keep you guessing all the way to the end. Yes, Le Carre offers the reader of spy stories everything he could wish for. Except a hero.
Most of le Carré's books are spy stories set during the Cold War (1945–91) and portray British . The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), directed by Martin Ritt, with Richard Burton as the protagonist, Alec Leamas
Most of le Carré's books are spy stories set during the Cold War (1945–91) and portray British Intelligence agents as unheroic political functionaries aware of the moral ambiguity of their work and engaged more in psychological than physical drama. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), directed by Martin Ritt, with Richard Burton as the protagonist, Alec Leamas. The Deadly Affair (1966), an adaptation of Call for the Dead, directed by Sidney Lumet, with James Mason as Charles Dobbs (George Smiley in the novel).
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British agent, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold portrays Western espionage methods as morally inconsistent with Western democracy and values
William Boyd explains why he keeps returning to Le Carré's great espionage novel 50 years after its first publication.
William Boyd explains why he keeps returning to Le Carré's great espionage novel 50 years after its first publication. What do you think spies are: priests, saints, martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors, too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. The person responsible for this bitter rant is Alec Leamas, the deadpan fiftysomething protagonist of John le Carré's 1963 novel The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. We will refer to it as The Spy from now on, for brevity's sake,.
Coming in from the cold has many meanings here. People remark that le Carre will be widely read in future generations. I can well believe it. Superbly written and a great introduction to the le Carre world we are seeing more and more of in film and television including the recent gripping "The Night Manager". 16 people found this helpful.
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John le Carré (author), Stephen Alcorn (artist).
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ( Smiley - 3 ) John Le Carré The story of a perilous assignment for the agent who wants to desperately end his career of espionage - to come in from th. Maybe he'll come some other time.
Le Carre is simply the world's greatest fictional spymaster . NEWSWEEKFor Leamas the espionage business has become an hermetic, enclosed world, detached from outside reality. He has watched his last agent being shot, crossing from East to West Berlin, and his death marks the end of the Circus' East German network. David John Moore Cornwell writes bestselling espionage thrillers under the pseudonym John Le Carre. In addition to Spy, several of his other books have been adapted for television and motion pictures, including The Russia House, a 1990 film starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer. Le Carre was born in Poole, Dorsetshire, England in 1931.