Alec Leamas
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In The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, you never really know what's going on with this former British spy from the same world as John Le Carre's George Smiley. After fouling up a mission overseas, it seems like Leamas is destitute and ready to drink himself to death. But then he meets a woman. And money starts coming in. And suddenly he's defecting. And not to spoil it, but by the time Leamas is on the Berlin Wall deciding to jump to safety to jump to love, you realize you've been digging your nails into your side of the couch.
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