The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

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Cold war paranoia Moral ambiguity Emotional detachment Betrayal as drift Tradecraft realism Cynical institutional suspense

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Release: 1963

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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. 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.

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