The Spy Who Came In From the Cold [electronic resource]
le Carré, John2009
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George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'. It is 1962: the height of the Cold War and only months after the building of the Berlin Wall. Alec Leamas is a hard-working, hard-drinking British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters. His agents are either on the run or dead, victims of the ruthlessly efficient East German counter-intelligence officer Hans-Dieter Mundt. Leamas is recalled to London where, to his surprise, instead of being washed up and consigned to a desk he's offered a chance to have his revenge by becoming a pawn in a brilliantly-conceived plot to destroy Mundt. But in order to do so he has to stay out in the cold a little longer... Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Brian Cox as Alec Leamas, this tense, compelling dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carré's taut, intricate thriller.
Main title:
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold [electronic resource] / John le Carré
Author:
le Carré, John, AuthorForest, Robert, AuthorCox, Brian, NarratorCast, Full, NarratorGemmell, Ruth, NarratorBeale, Simon Russell, Narrator
Edition:
Dramatised
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : BBC Audio, 2009
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Series:
George Smiley
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Awards:
Grand Master Award (Mystery Writers of America)Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement Award (Crime Writers’ Association)
ISBN:
9781408402450
Language:
English
BRN:
1526667
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