- Fiction, Cold War, Intelligence officers, Intelligence service
*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 intelligence officer, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer.
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- Author
- John le Carré
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 247
- Publisher
- Saur, Penguin Classics, Longanesi
- Editions
- 144
- Language
- vie, Portuguese, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9788497620161
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“The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said, "Why don't you go back and sleep?”
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, due to his strong disapproval of Brexit, he took out Irish citizenship, which was possible due to his having an Irish grandparent. Le Carré's third novel, *The Spy Who Came in from the Cold* (1963), became an
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