John le Carré - The Spy Who Came in From The Cold

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of the original hardcover edition.

NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED.

THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM ThE COLD

A Bantam Book / published by arrangement

with

Coward. McCann & Geoghegan; Inc.

PRINTING HISTORY

Coward, McCann edition published January

1964

Bantam edition / January 1975

17 printings through March 1989

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Cover type design by R. D. Scudellari.

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* * 1 * Checkpoint

The American handed Leamas another cup of

coffee and said, "Why don't you go back

and sleep? We can ring you if he shows

up."

Leamas said nothing, just stared through

the window of the checkpoint, along the

empty street.

"You can't wait forever, sir. Maybe he'll

come some other time. We can have the

_Polizei_ contact the Agency: you can be

back here in twenty minutes."

"No," said Leamas, "it's nearly dark now."

"But you can't wait forever; he's nine

hours over schedule."

"If you want to go, go. You've been very

good," Leamas added. "I'll tell Kramer

you've been damn good."

"But how long will you wait?"

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"Until he comes." Leamas walked to the

observation window and stood between the

two motionless policemen. Their binoculars

were trained on the East ern checkpoint.

"He's waiting for the dark," Leamas

muttered, "I know he is."

"This morning you said he'd come across

with the workmen."

Leamas turned on him.

"Agents aren't airplanes. They don't have

schedules. He's blown, he's on the run,

he's frightened. Mundt's after him, now,

at this moment. He's got only one chance.

Let him choose his time."

The younger man hesitated, wanting to go

and not finding the moment.

A bell rang inside the hut. They waited,

suddenly alert. A policeman said in

German, "Black Opel Rekord, Federal

registration."

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"He can't see that far in the dusk, he's

guessing," the American whispered and then

he added: "How did Mundt know?"

"Shut up," said Leamas from the window.

One of the policemen left the hut and

walked to the sandbag emplacement two feet

short of the white demarkation which lay

across the road like the base line of a

tennis court. The other waited until his

companion was crouched behind the

telescope in the emplacement, then put

down his binoculars, took his black helmet

from the peg by the door and carefully

adjusted it on his head. Somewhere high

above the checkpoint the arclights sprang

to life, casting theatrical beams onto the

road in front of them.

The policeman began his commentary. Leamas

knew it by heart.

"Car halts at the first control. Only one

occupant, a woman. Escorted to the Vopo

hut for document check." They waited in

silence.

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"What's he saying?" said the American.

Leamas didn't reply. Picking up a spare

pair of binoculars, he gazed fixedly

toward the East German controls.

"Document check completed. Admitted to the

second control."

"Mr. Leamas, is this your man?" the

American persisted. "I ought to ring the

Agency."

"Wait."

"Where's the car now? What's it doing?"

"Currency check, Customs," Leamas snapped.

Leamas watched the car. There were two

Vopos at the driver's door, one doing the

talking, the other standing off, waiting.

A third was sauntering around the car. He

stopped at the trunk, then walked back to

the driver. He wanted the key. He opened

the trunk, looked inside, closed it,

returned the key and walked thirty yards

up the road to where, midway between the

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two opposing checkpoints, a solitary East

German sentry was standing, a squat

silhouette in boots and baggy trousers.

The two stood together talking,

selfconscious in the glare of the

arclight.

With a perfunctory gesture they waved the

car on. It reached the two sentries in the

middle of the road and stopped again. They

walked around the car, stood off and

talked again; finally, almost unwillingly,

they let it continue across the line to

the Western sector.

"It is a man you're waiting for, Mr.

Leamas?" asked the American.

"Yes, it's a man."

Pushing up the collar of his jacket,

Leamas stepped outside into the icy

October wind. He remembered the crowd

then. It was something you forgot inside

the hut, this group of puzzled faces. The

people changed but the expressions were

the same. It was like the helpless crowd

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that gathers around a traffic accident, no

one knowing how it happened, whether you

should move the body. Smoke or dust rose

through the beams of the arc lamps, a

constant shifting pall between the margins

of light.

Leamas walked over to the car and said to

the woman, "Where is he?"

"They came for him and he ran. He took the

bicycle. They can't have known about me."

"Where did he go?"

"We had a room near Brandenburg, over a

pub. He kept a few things there, money,

papers. I think he'll have gone there.

Then he'll come over."

"Tonight?"

"He said he would come tonight. The others

have all been caught--Paul, Viereck,

Ländser, Salomon. He hasn't got long."

Leamas stared at her for a moment in

silence.

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"Ländser too?"

"Last night."

A policeman was standing at Leamas' side.

"You'll have to move away from here," he

said. "It's forbidden to obstruct the

crossing point."

Leaznas half turned. "Go to hell," he

snapped.

The German stiffened, but the woman said,

"Get in. We'll drive down to the corner."

He got in beside her and they drove slowly

until they reached a side road.

"I didn't know you had a car," he said.

"It's my husband's," she replied

indifferently. "Karl never told you I was

married, did he?" Leamas was silent. "My

husband and I work for an optical firm.

They let us over to do business. Karl only

told you my maiden name. He didn't want me

to be mixed up with . . . you."

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Leamas took a key from his pocket.

"You'll want somewhere to stay," he said.

His voice sounded flat. "There's an

apartment in the AlbrechtDurer-Strasse,

next to the Museum. Number 28A. You'll

find everything you want. I'll telephone

you when he comes."

"I'll stay here with you."

"I'm not staying here. Go to the flat.

I'll ring you. There's no point in waiting

here now."

"But he's coming to this crossing point."

Leamas looked at her in surprise.

"He told you that?"

"Yes. He knows one of the Vopos there, the

son of his landlord. It may help. That's

why he chose this route."

"And he told _you_ that?"

"He trusts me. He told me everything."

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