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Bookreport On The Spy Who Came - College Essays

Bookreport On The Spy Who Came

This story, set during the cold war, is about a British spy, Leamas, who is controlling the spy actions against the east block (or “zone”) from West-Berlin. After he lost one agent after the other to his opponent Mundt of the counter-espionage of the “party”, he returns back to London where he and Control (a man of high rank in the British espionage network) come up with a plot against Mundt. Their Plan was to get Leamas to “betray” London and sell information to his opponent which indirectly accused Mundt of being a London agent. They hoped that a man named Fiedler, who hates and works with Mundt and is probably just waiting for a chance like this, will catch on and together with the ...

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owner and ends up in prison, all of this was part of a big plan to get Fiedler to come to Leamas and not vice versa. The plan is successful and Fiedler comes into contact with Leamas and interrogates him. He is then brought to East-Germany where he is used as a witness during a secret trial against Mundt. Everything is successful until the defence calls Liz up as a witness. Leamas doesn’t know how they found out about her and the trial fails as he, through his actions, told Liz a little to much and as they didn’t tell her what the case was she couldn’t, although she wanted to, accuse Mundt or defend Leamas as she didn’t know if and what he was accused for. Leamas is then imprisoned as well as Fiedler and Liz. During the night Leamas and Liz are freed and brought to a car by Mundt, who tells them that he is really a London agent and this whole thing was planned to stop suspicion as Fiedler was getting very close to finding out his secret. He tells them that they thought it ...

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