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A Small Town in Germany is a 1968 espionage novel by the British author John le Carré. It is set in Bonn, the "small town" of the title, against a background of concern that former Nazis were returning to positions of power in West Germany.
A Small Town in Germany The Looking Glass War is a 1965 spy novel by John le Carré . Written in response to the positive public reaction to his previous novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold , the book explores the unglamorous nature of espionage and the danger of nostalgia.
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré (/ l ə ˈ k ær eɪ / lə-KARR-ay), [1] was a British author, [2] best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television.
The Incongruous Spy (1964), containing Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality, OCLC 851437951; The Quest for Karla (1982), containing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People (republished in 1995 as Smiley Versus Karla in the UK; and John Le Carré: Three Complete Novels in the U.S.), ISBN 0-394-52848-4
John le Carré's famous spy thriller isn't explicitly a winter book, but the title definitely evokes wintertime, so we're counting it. The story follows British agent Alec Lemas who is sent to ...
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.
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A nine-minute short film detailing the themes of the book was released on 22 July 2008, produced by Simon Channing-Williams, producer of the film version of Le Carré's 19th novel, The Constant Gardener. [4] A feature film adaptation was announced in June 2011 in Germany, with Anton Corbijn as director.