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Title: The Quintessential Cold War Novel
Review: John le Carre gives us a serious and gritty cold war era spy novel with "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold". The main character is an agent in Berlin who is recalled to London after his last contact is killed at the Berlin Wall. What follows is a spy plot that follows the main character through the depths of humanity and intrigue. This novel is so well written that you feel the emotions, paranoia, depression and anxiety of cold war Europe in the 1960s. This is no James Bond novel: no sexy heroine, no fancy casinos and hotels, no witty phrases, no implied sex on a sunny beach. This novel is a hard core look at the spy business that pulls no punches and spares none of the innocent. This truely is the best spy novel ever written.
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