The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
March 11 | 2:00pm | Houghton Room | Free
by John le Carré
Presented by Nancy Robinson
A British agent named Alec Leamas who is sent to East Germany to spread disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. The book is set during the height of Cold War tensions, when the Soviet Union and the West were competing for dominance in Europe. Most of the characters are spies on one side or the other of this ideological divide.
