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Spy Who Came in from the Cold/Audio Cassettes/7121 Audio Cassette – Audiobook, 31 December 1986

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Alec Leamas' Berlin operation has collapsed, and he is recalled to London, where he waits for the enemy to make him an offer. Soon he is back behind the Berlin Wall, out in the cold again. 2 cassettes.

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English
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Durkin Hayes
Publication date

31 December 1986
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17.78 x 2.54 x 25.4 cm
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0886461219
ISBN-13

978-0886461218
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Publisher : Durkin Hayes (31 December 1986)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0886461219
ISBN-13 : 978-0886461218
Item Weight : 100 g
Dimensions : 17.78 x 2.54 x 25.4 cm

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Santanu Sinha Chaudhuri

A spy thriller can be serious literature

Reviewed in India on 18 April 2019

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a classic in its genre. As I read it for the second time after maybe 30 years, I found it equally gripping. The story line is complex, just as a web of a spy ring should be. The narrative is taut and it is difficult to put the book down until you have finished reading it. But that alone doesn't make a book memorable. The Spy ... opens a window into the ruthless business of running governments and being one step ahead of the "enemy" and makes us question if such governments were the results of civilisation, was civilisation worth it?

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Anurag Sharma

The Reader Who Came in From the Cold!

Reviewed in India on 18 June 2016

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This is a timeless classic, a masterpiece of the genre. I think I read it once, decades ago but this is something you come back to from time to time. Some of the appreciation for the novel records much the same sentiment.

I am still reading it, having just begun, but fragments read all those years back have been coming to mind. The atmosphere is taut, and the plot marvelous. Le Carre is a master of the espionage thriller and it is never more in evidence than in this work. According to Graham Greene this is the best spy story he ever read. When one gets a work like this into the person library, one feels like one has come in from the cold of mediocrity!

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Viveck Batra

Terribly, terribly BORING

Reviewed in India on 4 September 2019

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Terrible story, terrible story telling skills, terribly slow. A 300 odd pages book which could have been finished in 30.
Don't get mislead by raving of renowned authors and publications. Probably ' best spy story' when there was no spy story benchmark. It is unlockable book. Complete waste of time.

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Numan Shoaib

Genre Classic

Reviewed in India on 15 July 2020

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Quintessential spy novel. Well written, well paced story on counter espionage and the politics of the spy world. A mature story that takes doesn't the reader for a fool, letting them read between the lines. Easy recommendation for anybody interested in the genre and for everybody else, read it, plain and simple 😂

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Gopinathan T

Tha Afterword was as interesting as the Novel itself

Reviewed in India on 21 December 2020

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The values or valuelessness of the secret services was what stood out. The individuals involved seem just pawns, to use a cliché. Absorbing read!

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Abhinav

Paper and print quality cheap. Looks pirated copy.

Reviewed in India on 26 March 2019

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This is not review about the content but the make of the book.
The quality of paper and print looks cheap. It looks like a pirated copy. Not happy with the product quality.

Attaching pictures of the book along with other original Penguin publication book.

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M. R. G. Apparao

Start of Le Carre

Reviewed in India on 15 July 2019

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Even though earlier he had written a few books, The spy created a cult following. Should also read Legacy of spies sort of a sequel.

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mnb

Must spy novel to read

Reviewed in India on 7 January 2021

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Excellent read...liked the plot, style of writing, humourous..la care was great author

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P. G. Harris

A Perfect Spy Story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 November 2017

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In 1961 and 1962, John Le Carre published Call for the Dead and a Murder of Quality. Both are high quality pieces of genre fiction, one a spy story, the other a detective novel. Both have the feel of a novelist building a world, of a writer finding his one. A year later comes this, an espionage tale of astounding depth, complexity and quality.

It is the story of Alex Leamas, a senior British agent working in Berlin. When his network is blown and his key agent is killed he returns to a desk job in London. From there he goes rapidly downhill, being dismissed for misconduct before finding a dead end job in a library, assaulting a shop keeper and being sent to prison. On the way he becomes involved with the innocent Liz.

Except that isn't the real story, it is all an elaborate plan for Leamas to defect in order to dicredit a senior figure in East German intelligence.

At the very top level, the Spy Who Came in from the Cold is an intricately plotted espionage thriller full of unexpected plot twists. However, to view it thus is to do it a disservice. To describe it as having a twisting plot suggests a mechanical, formula driven work. In truth it is a novel of subtle ambiguity which feels like walking through fog, which occasionally clears, giving a different perspective on the story.

To describe it as a thriller suggests good guys and bad guys fighting their way to a clear denouement. In fact it is a book painted in shades of moral grey. All of the characters, east and west, are human, flawed,and utterly believable. The core of the book is a single moral question. Can the good fight be fought using the tools of darkness. It is the same theme as Le Carre returns to in Smiley's people.

This is marketed as the third Smiley novel, but in truth he barely features, although his influence is all pervasive.

Simply magnificent.

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M. Dowden

Always Worth Reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 February 2017

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David Cornwell aka John le Carré already had two novels under his belt when this one was published, but this is the book that made him as it were, with critical success as well as becoming a bestseller, and a book that many of us have read a few times over the years.

Here we meet Alec Leamus, who losing his best intelligence source from East Germany is called back to the Circus. Whilst there a plot is created to what looks like bring down the serving head of the East German Secret Service. Thus Leamus takes to his new role, whilst all hope that things will go according to plan.

We thus read of what happens next, and as it starts to dawn on Alec, perhaps he is in way above his head with subtleties appearing and other inconsistencies in the plot. Le Carré is clever here in that although this seems to be an easy read there is a lot of complexity to the story, as he reveals only bits of the plan as we go along, leaving us as much in the dark as Leamus. This works very well as it gives us an appreciation and feel for the paranoia and unease that you would expect from such a situation, when you start to discover that what you think is planned isn’t quite the whole story.

Raising the question of whether the good guys should behave in a much better and grander way than the bad guys, this is still something that is discussed continually and no doubt will be for evermore. It is given then a feeling of authenticity and becomes believable as this is a tale not of black and white, but of grey, and let’s face it there are lots of things that fall into a grey murky world all around us.

In all then this is always a joy to read, showing the complexities, morals and ethics that are raised in something like Intelligence work and wars, and the price that has to be paid. This is then quite deep and thoughtful and would probably make a good choice for book groups.

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millhall

The definitive spy novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 October 2017

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I was a teenager when this book was first published in 1963 and I read it not long thereafter. With the confidence of youth, I suspect that I thought I understood it fully, but even at a second reading, I still have questions. In case I was feeling complacent, I took the advice of the kindle version and did not read William Boyd's review until I had finished the novel. That was a good decision. Boyd's review is superb. Indeed, I feel presumptious in even putting my own reflections into print. Boyd teases out layers of subtlety in a way I can only grasp after. Having lived through the cold war, and having read almost all of Le Carre's novels, I can say that this one is among the best. Although Smiley featured in the 1961 and 1962 novels, Le Carre develops his character in the subsequent novels and Smiley becomes the character for whom he is best remembered. The "hero" of "The Spy" does not feature again. I do wonder whether the present generation will read this novel, and his new novel with anything like the interest that my own generation bring. I have reviewed many Le Carre novels, and I am more and more convinced that this early work is among his best. Some of his subsequent offerings are a little tired, but The Spy is exciting, perplexing and constantly puzzling. In many ways it defined the genre. Details of the plot must be omitted to avoid spoiling it for new readers.

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Martin Jones

We’re all the same you know, that’s the joke

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2021

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“We’re all the same you know, that’s the joke.”

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is John Le Carre’s 1963 novel about the Cold War, as fought by the secret services of Britain on one side, East Germany and Russia on the other. Well, I talk of sides, but that isn’t really accurate. You’d think it would be clear which side was which, seeing as there’s a great big Berlin Wall between them, topped with barbed wire, swept by search lights, guarded by soldiers. Ironically, the book shows that one side is much the same as the other. It is difficult to work out who is working for whom. Spies double cross their governments, though that treachery might be loyal service in disguise. Both sides use the same ruthless methods.

There is a curious use of the word “same” in the novel. It crops up a lot. Have a look at page 12 - when Control is talking to our world-weary spy protagonist, Alec Leamas. The word “same” appears nine times. And then through the book, it’s there repeatedly - 57 times in all. I counted them! Same even appears on the very last page, referring to steps on a ladder over the Berlin Wall. Same, same, same. That got me thinking - when we find the same cold on both sides of the wall, a reader could be forgiven for thinking that the cold is everywhere, and there is no coming in from it.

But there is warmth in the book, personified in certain individuals, particularly in the figure of Liz Gold, a lovely, caring women Alec Leamas meets while working in a library. She is nurturing, sensible and kind, the moral compass of the book really. Consider Elizabeth Gold’s name. Gold has all sorts of positive connotations of warmth and happiness. Then again, don’t you think gold sounds so much like cold? It’s sounds almost the SAME! If the cold is everywhere, maybe the warm is too.

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is a fascinating book, a compelling spy story hiding all sorts of subtlety, like a cold war cypher. It is certainly true that readers can make a pessimistic interpretation. John Le Carre, by all accounts was himself a pessimistic and troubled man. Nevertheless, there is something in his book, a suggestion that while we are out in the cold with no possible hope of relief, warmth is never far away.

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M. Sumner

Dark, Brutal and Totally Believable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 May 2018

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The jewel in the crown of the espionage canon. I first read The Spy… in the early 70s with a second reading in the 90s, I believe it was. This has been my third reading. Having recently read A Legacy of Spies, which filled in so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that had tormented fans for more than fifty years, I just had to revisit the Smiley era.

George Smiley was introduced in Call for the Dead in 1961. He returned in 1962 in A Murder of Quality, his only story set outside the intelligence community. Then, in 1963, comes the masterpiece: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold which remains the best spy story I have ever read (I agree with Graham Greene). It is a recognition of the quality of Le Carré’s writing that I could remember the book so well, almost quoting some passages verbatim.

The story relates a complicated act of deadly triple-bluff created by the British Secret Service against its enemies in the German Democratic Republic, the Abteilung. Alec Leamas is at the centre of the plot - believes he is on a clever undercover mission of revenge but clever British brains have other motives… Le Carré laces the plot with multifarious complexities as Leamas comes to realise that he has been used by his own side - fooled, manipulated and misinformed. Leamas has travelled deep into the heart of Communist Germany, ostensibly to betray his country. Smiley tries to help the woman, Liz Gold, that Leamas has befriended with devastating consequences…

The Spy… is a dark, brutal, totally believable tale of espionage during the Cold War. Spies, summed up by Leamas to Liz Gold: ”What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs…” This is a terminally fatigued Alec Leamas and the ending of the story still leaves me devastated.

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