pBeautiful 50th Anniversary special edition featuring archival material and with a special cover designbrbrAlec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. brbrHe must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism. But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended, Leamas's mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have done. brbrIn le Carré's breakthrough work of 1963, the spy story is reborn as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining.brbrThis 50th anniversary special edition features a wealth of original archival material, much of it from le Carré's own files, and from the making of the original 1965 film adaptationbrbr'Superbly constructed, with an atmosphere of chilly hell' J.B. Priestleybrbr'The best spy story I have ever read' Graham Greenebrbr'The master storyteller ... has lost none of his cunning' A. N. Wilsonbrbr'I have re-read iThe Spy Who Came In From The Cold/i over and over again since I first encountered it in my teens, just to remind myself how extraordinary a work of fiction can be' Malcolm Gladwellbrbr'One of those very rare novels that changes the way you look at the world. Unflinching, highly sophisticated, superb' William Boyd/p