The S py Who Came in from the Cold (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback

Alec Leamas is sent east on one last operation, and almost nothing he is told about it turns out to be the whole truth. John le Carré strips espionage of glamour and presents it as bureaucratic, morally compromised work carried out by tired men following orders they can never fully see. The plot turns on deception layered over deception, and the closing pages reframe much of what came before, which is why the novel has stayed a benchmark for the genre. This Penguin Modern Classics paperback runs to 272 pages. Quick facts for buyers: • A Cold War espionage novel set around divided Berlin • Tradecraft presented as procedure rather than adventure • A plot built so the final pages recast the earlier ones • Penguin Modern Classics paperback, 272 pages For readers of spy fiction and twentieth-century classics, published by Penguin UK and stocked at Boipoka.