num_pages: 223
description: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The best spy story I have ever read." -Graham GreeneOn its publication in 1964, John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in From the Cold forever changed the landscape of spy fiction. Le Carré combined the inside knowledge of his years in British intelligence with the skills of the best novelists to produce a story as taut as it is twisting, unlike any previously experienced, which transports anyone who reads it back to the shadowy years in the early 1960s, when the Berlin Wall went up and the Cold War came to life.The Spy Who Came in From the Cold was hailed as a classic as soon as it was published, and it remains one today.
language: English
title: The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
titlecomplete: The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
characters: Hans-Dieter Mundt, Peter Guillam, Fiedler, Elizabeth Gold, George Smiley, Karl Riemeck, Alec Leamas
genres: Classics, Mystery, Novels, Suspense, Thriller, Espionage, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 105478
places: Berlin, London, England
series: George Smiley
awards: awardedAt: -189360000000
name: Somerset Maugham Award, awardedAt: -157737600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: -220896000000
name: CWA Gold Dagger, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: The CWA Dagger of Daggers
publisher: Bloomsbury USA