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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 espionage novel by John le Carré, adapted into a 1965 film starring Richard Burton. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born October 19, 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England), an English writer of espionage novels. ...
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John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born October 19, 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England), an English writer of espionage novels. ...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1965 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by John Le Carre. ...
Richard Burton CBE (November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor. ...
The novel received good reviews and was a best seller. In 2005 it was listed as one of TIME's All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels. It was recently voted the best spy novel of all-time, just ahead of Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, by Publishers Weekly [1], [2] A pocket watch, a device used to tell time Look up time in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 New York City – March 12, 2001 Naples, Florida) was an American author of 29 thriller novels, and was educated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. ...
The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller by Robert Ludlum about an amnesiac who must discover who he is and why several different groups, including an assassin and the CIA, are trying to kill him. ...
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It is a spy novel based on the Cold War period of East/West "bloc" tensions. Based primarily in Eastern Europe it follows the character of Alec Leamas. For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ...
Plot summary It tells the story of Alec Que Leamas, a British spy who is part of an elaborate plot to kill the East German spymaster Mundt.
The Berlin office under Leamas has not been doing well. One of their best double agents, Karl Riemeck, was gunned down at the border, probably on the orders of the head of the East German spy section, Mundt. Leamas is called back to England for one last job: to "turn" over to the communists himself and get close enough to Mundt to kill him. To do this, he acts as if he's been disgraced -- drinks a lot, assaults a grocer, and lands in jail -- so as to appear ripe for recruiting by the other side. During this stage, he also gets to know a sweet innocent girl named Liz Gold who happens to belong to the Communist Party in Britain. Sure enough, Leamas is approached in England, taken to Holland, and then to East Germany. But there's a hitch: Mundt's second in command, Fiedler, believes Mundt may be a double agent working for Leamas's superiors in England, so he stages a hearing where Leamas is a captive witness. Liz Gold, invited to the East on a communist information exchange program, is unwittingly the star witness. She is both loyal to the communists and to Leamas - does she lie about her relationship with Leamas or tell the truth, and does she even know the horrible consequences of either course of action?
Characters in "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" - Alec Leamas: The British spy in the centre of this web of intrigue.
- Mundt: Leader of the East German Spy Agency and Leamas's nemesis.
- Fiedler: Communist spy, Second in Command to Mundt
- Liz Gold: English librarian and member of the Communist Party (renamed Nan Perry for the film)
- Control: Leader of British Intelligence
- George Smiley: British spy
Book cover showing Sir Alec Guiness as George Smiley. ...
Awards Le Carré's book won a 1964 Gold Dagger award from the British Crime Writers Association for Best Crime Novel. One year later the US edition was awarded the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Mystery Novel. It was the first work to win the award for Best Novel from both mystery writing organizations. Screenwriters Dehn and Trosper received an Edgar the following year for Best Motion Picture Screenplay for an American Movie. In 2005, the fiftieth anniversary of the Dagger Awards, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was awarded the "Dagger of Daggers," a one-time only award given to the Golden Dagger winner regarded as the stand-out among all fifty winners over the history of CWA. The Gold Dagger was an award given annually by the CWA for best crime novel of the year. ...
The Crime Writers Association is a writers association in the United Kingdom. ...
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. ...
Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York. ...
Trivia An episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges", was very similar in theme and plot. Space station Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 or STDS9 or DS9 for short) is a science fiction television series produced by Paramount and set in the Star Trek universe. ...
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges is an episode from the seventh season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ...
The title was spoofed in the 1965 comedy film The Spy with a Cold Nose, the title of an episode of the 1960s television series, The Monkees, "The Spy Who Came in from the Cool", and in the DangerMouse episode The Spy Who Stayed in with a Cold. The 1990s television series Power Rangers Zeo had an episode entitled "The Ranger Who Came in From the Gold." The Monkees were a pop-rock quartet created and based in Los Angeles in 1965 for an NBC American television series of the same name. ...
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Quotes "It is the best spy story I have ever read." (Graham Greene) [1] Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH (October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991) was a great English playwright, novelist, short story writer, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. ...
"Very disappointing. It was a relief to read a somewhat sophisticated spy-story after all that James Bond idiocy, and there are some well-thought out passages. But the whole plot from beginning to end is basically implausible, and the implausibility keeps on obtruding itself - at any rate, to anyone who has any real knowledge of the business!" (Kim Philby) [2] Kim Philby Harold Adrian Russell Kim Philby or H.A.R. Philby (OBE: 1946-1965), (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence, a communist, and spy for the Soviet Unions NKVD and KGB. In 1963, Philby was revealed as a member of...
"A topical and terrible story...he can communicate emotion, from sweating fear to despairing love, with terse and compassionate conviction. Above all, he can tell a tale. Formidable equipment for a rare and disturbing writer" (The Sunday Times) Footnotes - ^ The Manhattan Rare Book Company (2005). John Le Carre: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, First Edition. Retrieved January 23, 2006.
- ^ Kim Philby: The Spy I Loved (1967), Eleanor Philby
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