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Title: Tragic...fascinating
Review: Those who like their spy aristocratic, romantic, brimming with boyish charm, and with ever a clever remark or sexual pun up his Armani sleeve should run--fast--from this book. For le Carre is a realist spy novelist with little interest in how many willing damsels his hero can bag, and less interest in crafting a spy that would be capable of such seduction anyway. But he has written the best novel ever about spies who would not be spies, everyday people except with guns and fancy cars, who are burned out with all of the killing but are tragically too good at it to escape the game. Possibly, it is just the best novel about spies ever, period. Alec Leamas is James Bond without charm, good looks, unflappable bravado, and humor: in short, he is an ordinary man.But The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is no ordinary spy novel.
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