The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British intelligence officer, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. It serves as a sequel to le Carré's previous novels Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality, which also featured the fictitious British intelligence organisation, "The Circus", and its agents George Smiley and Peter Guillam.
Genres
- Fiction
- Cold War
- Intelligence officers
- Intelligence service
- English Spy stories
- Spies
- George Smiley (Fictitious character)
- Cold War (1945-1989) fast (OCoLC)fst01754978
- Spy stories
- Smiley, george (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, thrillers, espionage
- Large type books
- Literature and fiction, mystery and suspense
- Library finance
- Periodicals
- English literature
- Fiction, espionage
- Fiction, thrillers
- England, fiction
- English language
- Tui li xiao shuo
- Chang pian xiao shuo
- Ying guo wen xue
- Xiao shuo
- Officiers de renseignements
- Romans, nouvelles
- Guerre froide
- Großbritannien Secret Service
- Großbritannien
- Spionageabwehr
- Cuentos de espías
- Guerra fría
- Ficción
- Espionaje
- Smiley, george
- Smiley, george (fictitious character)
- Smiley, george (fictitious character)--fiction
- Intelligence officers--england--fiction
- Cold war--fiction
- Pr6062.e33 s69 2013
- 823/.914
- English fiction
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