The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

*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. It serves as a sequel to le Carré's previous novels *Call for the Dead* and *A Murder of Quality,* which also featured the fictitious British intelligence organisation, "The Circus", and its agents George Smiley and Peter Guillam.

First sentence: The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said, "Why don't you go back and sleep?

Year

1964

Language

English

Publisher

Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Editions

87

Reader rating

4.1 / 5 (49)

Pages

212

ISBN

9780743442534

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