InThe Spy, le Carré refers to the elimination of the agents Paul, Viereck, Ländser, Salomon and others unnamed, and the consequent rolling up of Leamas’ networks in East Germany. The, admittedly imprecise, chronology of the story places such activity in the first part of 1961, in the...
And there can be but one answer to this question for those to whom it has presented itself. As to what the outcome will be of it, I don’t know, because it is not given to me to know. But what should be done, I do unmistakably know. And if you ask: “What will happen?”, ...