E-audiobook
Spy who came in from the cold
Record details
- ISBN: 9781408402450 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1408402459 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
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remote - Publisher: Bath : BBC Audiobooks, 2009.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 2:49:27. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Simon Russell Beale. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 40592 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- Fiction Radio programs |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
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George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess âthe cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virginâ. It is 1962: the height of the Cold War and only months after the building of the Berlin Wall. Alec Leamas is a hard-working, hard-drinking British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters. His agents are either on the run or dead, victims of the ruthlessly efficient East German counter-intelligence officer Hans-Dieter Mundt. Leamas is recalled to London where, to his surprise, instead of being washed up and consigned to a desk he's offered a chance to have his revenge by becoming a pawn in a brilliantly-conceived plot to destroy Mundt. But in order to do so he has to stay out in the cold a little longer... Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Brian Cox as Alec Leamas, this tense, compelling dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carré's taut, intricate thriller.
