In this novel written by the author John Le Carré, the main character of the story is a British spy called Alec Leamas, a kind of an anti-hero spy who has seen his last destination as the director of espionage in Berlin but has ended up failing, losing his best double agent and alcoholic. Mr. Leamas intuits that when he returns to London, he will be rewarded with a passport. However, Mr. Leamas is a man without illusions that has to fulfill one last mission: to finish with the espionage chief of East Germany, Hans-dieter Mundt. But in reality it is a brilliant counterintelligence operative devised by Control and Smiley to defenestrate his archenemy Mundt, simulating the desertion of Leamas.
As the story goes on, Mr. Leamas starts to discover…show more content… Berlin, will be the bulwark in which the political tensions of this ideological dispute will be exposed, further deepened by the infamous Berlin Wall that will divide Germany, fomenting resentment between sides. During this epoch, the German capital will serve as a base of operations for a multitude of spies who will roam the streets, bringing and selling state secrets from one group to another, falsifying information, and promoting betrayals. Mr. Le Carré wants to state an allegation against the methods used by the intelligence services, which do not hesitate to sacrifice innocents to protect their precious sources of information, no matter how spurious sources are, without any…show more content… Le Carre makes a brilliant exposition of the politics of movements, because in the German Democratic Republic ruled an ideology like the communism, it wallowed speaking properly, that marked the reality of a century and that, although a regret of having fallen, it continues in force evolving and adapting new creeds to their outdated doctrine (radical ecologism, radical feminism, and everything that serves to close the Christian tradition and liberal capitalism). In this sense, Le Carré insinuates, through the political background of history, what supposes to live subjugated under the communist reality. Thus is expressed in Leamas a converted communist, Fiedler:
"All our work - his and the Mason - is based on the theory that the whole is more important than the individual. That is why a communist considers his secret of service as the natural extension of his arm, and that is why in his country the espionage is enveloped in a kind of English Pudeur (English modesty, modesty) the exploitation of individuals can only be justified by the collective necessity, can it not? English rural life. (Page
