Spy Sinker Spy Sinker Spy Sinker is a 1990 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the final novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). "Spy Sinker" is part of the "Hook, Line and Sinker" trilogy, being preceded by "Spy Hook" and "Spy Line". This trilogy is preceded by the "Game, Set and Match" trilogy and followed by the final "Faith, Hope and Charity" trilogy. Deighton's novel "Winter" (1987) is a prequel to the nine novels, covering the years 1900-1945 and providing the backstory
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film) film critic Michael Sragow. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1965 British Cold War spy film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner. Based on the 1963 John le Carré novel of the same name, the film depicts British agent Alec Leamus' mission as a faux defector to East Germany who is tasked with sowing damaging disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. As part of a charade, Leamus pretends to quit British intelligence and live as an embittered alcoholic.