The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Virginia Woolf THE PEARL sets the values

THE PEARL sets the values of the civilized world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate

In September 1940

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Virginia Woolf THE PEARL sets the valuesFrom the master of spy thrillers, John le Carr's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by the author and an introduction by William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart. Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in the shadow of the Berlin Wall for his British masters. He has seen too many