The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
By John Le Carré
From the Cold War master spy novelist, this is the quintessential novel about the treacherous world of double agents. Le Carré builds a political chessboard in his account of a British agent who fails to protect double agents in Cold War Berlin. Instead of getting the boot, Leamas is told to merely play the part of a failure, and he finds himself deep in Communist territory, in a dangerous game with his enemies. And who better to write a spy story than Le Carré himself, who was working for British Intelligence when the Berlin Wall went up? The novel has gained recognition as the “finest spy story ever written,” and was faithfully adapted into a superb film starring Richard Burton as Alec Leamas.
