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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is an espionage novel by John le Carré, which tells the story of Alec Lemas, a British spy, who resigns from the Circus (as the British Secret Service is known in John le Carré's books) and defects to East Germany.
Lemas is actually being manipulated by George Smiley, as part of an elaborate plot to discredit an effective East German spymaster and help a British agent gain power in the East German Secret Service.
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The inter-war period's pulp spy fiction was mostly concerned with battling Bolsheviks.
Somerset Maugham, who wrote a fairly accurate portrayal of spying in the First World War in his Ashenden; or the British Agent (1928) (which was filmed by Hitchcock as The Secret Agent).
They modeled their works on the 1930s authors who were very dubious about the morality of the world of espionage.
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The definitive antidote to the Bond fantasies appeared in 1963 with the publication of John Le Carré's ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'.
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