Ebook {Epub PDF} The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré

As the novel begins, Alec Leamas, the head of the Berlin station for the British secret service, waits at a checkpoint on the Berlin Wall for his agent Karl Riemeck, whose cover has been blown, to cross over to safety in the West. Riemeck’s mistress Elvira, who Leamas believes knows too much about the spy operation, crosses into West Berlin and tells Leamas that Riemeck will cross soon.  · The person responsible for this bitter rant is Alec Leamas, the deadpan fiftysomething protagonist of John le Carré's novel The Spy Who Came In From the www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 9 mins.  · The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (The Spy) was a breakthrough novel for John le Carre, but also for the general spy fiction class, adding a level of clever craftsmanship, setting it above others when it was published in , but it is still a good read today. It is set in a time of international espionage on both sides of the Berlin Wall.

One of le Carre's most masterful cold war spy stories, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, is completely gripping from the breath-holding first pages to the dazzling conclusion. Yet the writing itself is elegant enough to be a fine love missive. This was not my first encounter with the book; I had read it many years ago and seen the film version. His first two novels were Call for the Dead () and A Murder of Quality (). His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (), was greeted with great enthusiasm and secured his worldwide reputation. Mr. le Carré is also the author of The Naive and Sentimental Lover, The Looking Glass War, A Small Town in Germany, Tinker, Tailor. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is a fascinating book, a compelling spy story hiding all sorts of subtlety, like a cold war cypher. It is certainly true that readers can make a pessimistic interpretation. John Le Carre, by all accounts was himself a pessimistic and troubled man.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (The Spy) was a breakthrough novel for John le Carre, but also for the general spy fiction class, adding a level of clever craftsmanship, setting it above others when it was published in , but it is still a good read today. It is set in a time of international espionage on both sides of the Berlin Wall. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 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 is John Le Carre’s novel about the Cold War, as fought by the secret services of Britain on one side, East Germany and Russia on the other. Well, I talk of sides, but that isn’t really accurate.