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Resources
- Rereading: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré"William Boyd explains why he keeps returning to Le Carré's great espionage novel 50 years after its first publication ... "
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" ... It has a complex plot full of uncertainties about the status of its central character, the British intelligence agent Alec Leamas; about who is telling the truth; and about the moral and ideological justifications for torture and killing by governments ... "
- The Spy who came in from the Cold | LitCharts"As the novel begins, Alec Leamas, the head of the Berlin station for the British secret service, waits at a checkpoint on the Berlin Wall for his agent Karl Riemeck, whose cover has been blown, to cross over to safety in the West...."
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Summary & Study Guide | Book Rags"In this story of Cold War espionage in a divided Germany, Alec Leamas is a British secret agent who becomes a double agent in order to bring down the head of the Communist intelligence agency in East Germany ... "
- Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in From the Cold: A Structuralist Reading'Superbly constructed, with an atmosphere of chilly hell' ... "
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