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. As …
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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. As with le Carré's previous novels Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality, the novel features the fictitious British intelligence organisation, "The Circus", and its agents George Smiley and Peter Guillam. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold portrays Western espionage methods as morally inconsistent with Western democracy and values. The novel received critical acclaim at the time of its publication and became an international best-seller; it was selected as one of the 100 Best Novels by Time magazine in 2005. In 1965, Martin Ritt directed a cinematic adaptation, with Richard Burton as Leamas. Characters and events from The Spy Who Came in from the Cold are revisited in A Legacy of Spies, le Carré's 2017 novel centering on an ageing Guillam.
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- 4819
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
224 pages
English language
Published 1980 by Gollancz.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-575-02900-2Copied ISBN!
The spy who came in from the cold
288 pages
English language
Published 2013 by Penguin Books.
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- 978-0-14-196362-4Copied ISBN!
Spy Who Came in from the Cold
272 pages
English language
Published 2009
- ISBN:
- 978-0-340-99374-3Copied ISBN!
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
288 pages
English language
Published 2011
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- 978-0-241-96233-6Copied ISBN!
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
256 pages
English language
Published 2005
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- 978-0-8027-1454-1Copied ISBN!
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
240 pages
English language
Published Sept. 3, 2013 by Penguin Books.
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- 978-0-14-312475-7Copied ISBN!
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
219 pages
English language
Published 1997
- ISBN:
- 978-0-340-70338-0Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 1705752
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
240 pages
English language
Published 1965
- ISBN:
- 978-0-330-20107-0Copied ISBN!
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
240 pages
English language
Published 2006
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- 978-0-340-92424-2Copied ISBN!
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
224 pages
English language
Published Nov. 1, 1963
- ISBN:
- 978-0-575-00149-7Copied ISBN!
The spy who came in from the cold
English language
Published 2013 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-318982-4Copied ISBN!
El espía que surgió del frío
255 pages
Spanish language
Published 1985
- ISBN:
- 978-84-320-8615-1Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 44096577
La spia che venne dal freddo
237 pages
Italian language
Published 2001 by Gruppo Mondadori.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-04-50005-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 9660612
The Spy who Came in from the Cold
English language
Published 1980
- ISBN:
- 978-0-553-14369-0Copied ISBN!
El espía que surgió del frío
248 pages
Spanish language
Published 2003 by Debolsillo.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-9793-050-5Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 3376886
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