L' espion qui venait du froid

Leamas arrivait d'un univers polaire où l'individu n'était qu'un pion à manoeuvrer, à risquer. Il avait assisté à la destruction de tous les siens et maintenant il restait seul. Il rentrait à Londres, accablé, vidé. Mais l'agent le plus endurci a parfois besoin de la chaleur d'un contact humain.

David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the …