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Availability:In StockContributor:Coralie Bickford-SmithSeries:Penguin Clothbound ClassicsPublish date:6/2/2026Pages:304
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780241771037ISBN-10:024177103XUPC:9780241771037Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Thrillers, Mystery & Detective, HistoricalBook Topic:Espionage, International Crime & MysterySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.409Product ID:SCJE8NDFD4
From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War, now a Penguin Clothbound Classic designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Alec 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. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism. But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended, Leamas's mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have done. In le Carré's breakthrough work of 1963, the spy story is reborn as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining. Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780241771037ISBN-10:024177103XUPC:9780241771037Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Thrillers, Mystery & Detective, HistoricalBook Topic:Espionage, International Crime & MysterySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.409Product ID:SCJE8NDFD4
John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a con man, 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 December 12, 2020.
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