The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - 50th Anniversary Edition {A Flawless SIGNED 1st with publisher letter }

John Le Carre

ISBN 10: 0141194537 / ISBN 13: 9780141194530

Published by PENGUIN CLASSICS, London, 2013

About this Item

A Flawless copy signed on the Title Page by John Le Carre. This comes with a copy of a letter from the publisher. This is the first printing of the 50th Anniversary Edition. Includes images from the Archives -- a fascinating history of the book and author and an Afterword by Mr. Le Carre.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - 50th Anniversary Edition {A Flawless SIGNED 1st with publisher letter }
• Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS, London
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141194537
• ISBN 13: 9780141194530
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Beautiful 50th Anniversary special edition featuring archival material and with a special cover design

Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment.

He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism. But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended, Leamas's mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have done.

In le Carré's breakthrough work of 1963, the spy story is reborn as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining.

This 50th anniversary special edition features a wealth of original archival material, much of it from le Carré's own files, and from the making of the original 1965 film adaptation

'Superbly constructed, with an atmosphere of chilly hell' J.B. Priestley

'The best spy story I have ever read' Graham Greene

'The master storyteller ... has lost none of his cunning' A. N. Wilson

'I have re-read The Spy Who Came In From The Cold over and over again since I first encountered it in my teens, just to remind myself how extraordinary a work of fiction can be' Malcolm Gladwell

'One of those very rare novels that changes the way you look at the world. Unflinching, highly sophisticated, superb' William Boyd

About the Author

John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020. His posthumous novel Silverview was published in 2021.