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Pros
The spy who came in from the cold is a brilliant novel that lecarre banged out in his early thirties while working full time. It accurately portrays the nonsense, dangers, and hellscapes of cold war bureaucracy. Classical le carre story.
The story is a chess game of espionage. It’s a very different, and perhaps more real, view of cold war espionage.
Alec leamas is the berlin station head for the british intelligence agency known as the the circus. The novel opens at the berlin wall, as leamas waits for a key operative to escape. He watches his chief east german informant karl get shot down by eas... Read More
Cons
The writing is okay but not better than serviceable. This edition has no active table of contents. Secondly the spacing between paragraphs and sentences is very unusual which is visually distracting.
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Quality
Excellent read with the twists and turns of espionage and counter espionage
Really i cant praise this book too highly
Price
Le carre’s disclaimer at the beginning is worth the price alone
Competitiveness
All taking place in a dystopian world
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novel, cold, good, first and great. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 17,421 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 17 2023.
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I had never read john le carré despite loving spy movies and having seen several adaptations of his works
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It might keep la carre from the highest order — like his spies clever but immoral
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Lecarre added a prologue to this book in its 50th anniversary edition to explain how much he hated that people believed that this book was a 34real life34 look into spying
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Leamus seems like he could be a very real person burned out by what spying requires
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Collapse of the wall removed the visual symbol of the continual battle of opposing philosophies the collective versus the individual
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Cautionary admonition to rush not to judgement but remain aware and prepared for engagement
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It was a sad commentary on human manipulation
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There are no good guys at all
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