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The Looking-Glass War. 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 agent, 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 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. David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré (/ ləˈkæreɪ / 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.
Box office. $7,600,000. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold is a 1965 British-Irish spy film based on the 1963 novel of the same name by John le Carré. The film stars Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner. It was directed by Martin Ritt, and the screenplay was written by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper.
PZ4.L4526 L43 1962. Preceded by. Call for the Dead. Followed by. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. A Murder of Quality is the second novel by John le Carré, published in 1962. [1] It features George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in his only book set outside the espionage community. [2][3]
John le Carré, whose bestselling novels about the chilly world of Cold War espionage were the basis for a long series of popular film and TV adaptations, has died of pneumonia. Le Carré’s ...
British novelist John le Carré, who anatomized Cold War spycraft and sometimes even influenced it, has died after a short illness at the age of 89. John le Carré, the spy who became the ...
A Legacy of Spies is both a prequel and a sequel to John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.. In the first book (Spy), Alec Leamas, an agent of the British overseas intelligence agency called "The Circus", who is motivated by the death of his operative Karl Riemeck while crossing from East Berlin to West Berlin, agrees to undertake one final mission to ...