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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 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 Dead and A Murder ...
The film depicts British MI6 agent Alec Leamas' mission as a faux defector who is given the task of sowing damaging disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. As part of a charade, Leamas is apparently dismissed from the British secret intelligence service and becomes an embittered alcoholic.
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 ...
Although le Carré had intended The Spy Who Came in from the Cold as an indictment of espionage as morally compromised, audiences widely viewed its protagonist, Alec Leamas, as a tragic hero. In response, le Carré's next book, The Looking Glass War, was a satire about an increasingly deadly espionage mission which ultimately proves pointless.
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. The book tells the story of an incompetent British military ...
Control, however, orchestrates the escalation of the power struggle by secretly having Smiley leave a trail indicating Leamas is still an agent. Following the submission of arrest warrants by Fiedler and Mundt for each other, Leamas is blown and offers to blow the mission to save Liz Gold, a visiting CPGB member who is also Leamas' lover. Mundt ...
Alec Leamas, in John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Alexander Scott, from the TV series I Spy; Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz, from the movie The Other Guys; Amos Burke, from TV series Burke's Law; Annie Walker from the USA original series Covert Affairs; Arun Khanna, from the 2003 Indian film The Hero: Love Story of a Spy
Spy fiction. Spy fiction is a genre of literature involving espionage as an important context or plot device. It emerged in the early twentieth century, inspired by rivalries and intrigues between the major powers, and the establishment of modern intelligence agencies. It was given new impetus by the development of fascism and communism in the ...