The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Characters
Le Carre is distinctive in his type of spy, an anti-James Bond type, no longer the super-spy. Alec Leamus, the hero of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, is a fifty-year-old professional, grown stale in espionage. He has just lost his final contact in East Germany as the novel opens, and he is not really sure of his reasons for remaining in the service. He has lost confidence in the machine in which he is operating. Consequently he lives through many roles, convincingly. He "goes to seed, [becomes] a resentful, drunken wreck"; goes to prison; and, most dangerous of all, falls in...
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