| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780802714541 | | Publisher: Walker & Company | | Publish Date: 9/1/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 31228712 | | Item#: R457MX | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.5H x 5.75L x 1.25T | | Pages: 256 |
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| | | A new hardcover edition of the book Graham Greene called "the best spy story I have ever read." On its publication in 1964, John le Carre''s "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" forever changed the landscape of spy fiction. Le Carre combined the inside knowledge of his years in British intelligence with the skills of the best novelists to produce a story as taut as it is twisting, unlike any previously experienced, which transports anyone who reads it back to the shadowy years in the early 1960s, when the Berlin Wall went up and the Cold War came to life.
"The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" was hailed as a classic as soon as it was published, and it remains one today.
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Hailed as "the best spy story I have ever read" by Graham Greene, and "the best spy story ANYBODY has ever read" by The New York Times THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (1962) cemented author John Le Carre's reputation as a master of the espionage novel, and elevated the genre to the same level as the best literary writing and political thinking. During The Cold War, a burned-out spy accepts a last assignment that involves him being intentionally recruited by East German intelligence. As he proceeds with his mission, he discovers that he's lost his taste for spying and now questions the rightness of rules he once obeyed without question. With its intricate twists and double-crosses, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD works as a wonderful thriller--its authenticity heightened by Le Carre's work in Her Majesty's Secret Service--but it is the book's profound questioning of the moral consequences of covert operations in the name of "freedom" that has made it a classic. In 2006, Publishers Weekly named it the greatest spy novel ever written.
| Praise| "Le Carré proves a deadpan master at invoking darkness at noon in the crocodile world of international espionage." 01/17/1964 "Written...with pitiless, elegant clarity, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD is a first-rate thriller and more: a sad, sympathetic portrait of a man who has lived by lies and subterfuge for so long, he's forgotten how to tell the truth." (from TIME Magazine's 100 greatest novels of all time...) - Lev Grossman 2005 |
| Author Bio| John Le Carre | | Born David Cornwell in Poole, Dorset, John Le Carr? attended Berne University in Switzerland and Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating in 1956 with a B.A. in modern languages. After tutoring at Eton for two years, he went to work for the British Foreign Service in Bonn and Hamburg from 1959 to 1964. Le Carr? is best known for his brooding international spy, the ironically named George Smiley. In fact, Smiley is a dark, disturbed agent mired in the lonely, cutthroat world of espionage where the line between good and evil is often blurred, and sometimes erased. Le Carr? pulls no punches in depicting the stark, inhuman nature of international intrigue. He first gained fame for the classic thriller THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (1963), which featured Smiley in a small, supporting role. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, many people predicted that Le Carr?'s career would die with the Cold War. But Le Carr? proved them wrong, finding newly relevant topics in the post-Cold-War world. |
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