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) Burton's then wife, Elizabeth Taylor. Ardmore Studios in Ireland and England's Shepperton Studios were used for the shooting of interior scenes. "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" took in $7,600,000 at the box office. Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" wrote, "After all the spy and mystery movies of a romantic and implausible nature that we have seen, it is great to see one as realistic, and believable too, as 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.'" "Variety" called the film "an excellent contemporary espionage drama of the Cold War which achieves solid impact via emphasis