After a series of low-level jobs, he takes a job at a library, where he meets Liz. He loses his job in the Banking Section of British intelligence through a fake embezzlement scam. He appears to be slipping into a drunken and desolate state. Leamas begins to put the mission into practice. Leamas expects to be fired but instead Control gives him a new and complicated mission to bring down the head of East German intelligence, Mundt. When his agent, Karl Riemeck, is killed crossing the border into West Berlin, Leamas returns to London to explain the situation to his boss, Control. The novel explores the danger and intrigue of 1960s era Cold War espionage and the individuals caught up in it.Īlec Leamas is the head of British Intelligence in West Germany and oversees the spy missions in East Berlin. His personal and professional loyalties come in to play as he realizes that nothing is how it seems. All goes according to plan until Leamas finds himself before a secret tribunal that seeks to expose him as a British spy. In this story of Cold War espionage in a divided Germany, Alec Leamas is a British secret agent who becomes a double agent in order to bring down the head of the Communist intelligence agency in East Germany.
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