The Edgar Awards Revisited: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré (Best Novel; 1965)
By Philip Jett
March 22, 2019The Cold War had grown hot. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev considered the young U.S. president John F. Kennedy to be weak and fearful of war. Consequently, the Eastern Bloc constructed an 87-mile wall of concrete and barbed wire that divided Berlin, Germany, into eastern and western sections in 1961. The Soviets believed that Kennedy and…