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Rereading: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
William Boyd explains why he keeps returning to Le Carré's great espionage novel 50 years after its first publication.
William Boyd explains why he keeps returning to Le Carré's great espionage novel 50 years after its first publication.
What do you think spies are: priests, saints, martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors, too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives." The person responsible for this bitter rant is Alec Leamas, the deadpan fiftysomething protagonist of John le Carré's 1963 novel The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. We will refer to it as The Spy from now on, for brevity's sake, but it's worth starting any current assessment of the novel with something of a thought-experiment.
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