The Spy who Came in from the Cold

'The best spy story I have ever read' GRAHAM GREENE The Cold War is at its most chill. Alec Leamas, a spent spymaster, leaves West Berlin for London. His informants are either exposed or dead; his operational usefulness is over. Control, however, believes Leamas has one last job in him. It is daring, highly speculative and very, very dangerous. But for Leamas, the opportunity to revenge himself on those who, one by one, took out his people, is irresistible . . . 'A masterpiece, the best espionage novel ever written' JOHN BANVILLE 'One of those writers who will be read a century from now' ROBErT HARRIS