Review Superbly constructed, with an atmosphere of chilly hell (J.B. Priestley)The best spy story I have ever read (Graham Greene)The master storyteller ... has lost none of his cunning (A. N. Wilson)I have re-read The Spy Who Came In From The Cold over and over again since I first encountered it in my teens, just to remind myself how extraordinary a work of fiction can be. (Malcolm Gladwell)One of those very rare novels that changes the way you look at the world. Unflinching, highly sophisticated, superb. (William Boyd) About the Author John Le Carre or David John Moore Cornwell was a graduate of modern languages. He worked for a brief stint as a school teacher before joining the Intelligence division of Britain Foreign Services. He also wrote written A Perfect Spy, A Murder of Quality and Iron Curtain. He won several awards, like the Somerset Maugham award and The British Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger award. He produced the Tailor of Panama and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.