Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré
George Smiley is summoned out of forced retirement by the British Cabinet Office to uncover a Soviet mole who has burrowed to the very pinnacle of the British Secret Intelligence Service, codenamed the Circus.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
by John le Carré (1963)
About this book
In John le Carré's masterpiece of cynical realism, veteran British intelligence operative Alec Leamas is summoned back to Berlin for one final, morally compromised mission behind the Iron Curtain to ruin East German counterintelligence.
Setting / LocationBerlin & London
Story Era1960s Cold War
Protagonist / CoreAlec Leamas (Weathered MI6 Agent)
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