by John le Carré · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401499753
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«El espía que surgió del frío» is the spy novel by John le Carré, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Set during the Cold War, it follows Alec Leamas, a British agent who returns to London after losing his spies in East Germany. His superior, Control, assigns him a final mission: to infiltrate enemy intelligence by posing as a defector.
It is the third installment in John le Carré's George Smiley series. The novel won the CWA Gold Dagger, the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel, and the Somerset Maugham Award.
For readers of classic espionage and suspense, especially those following John le Carré's George Smiley series.
David John Moore Cornwell, known by his pen name John le Carré, was an English author. Many of his espionage novels have been adapted for film or television. He has been described as a "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", and is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, le Carré became an Irish citizen.
