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The 50th-anniversary edition of the best-selling book that introduced John le Carré’s profession global Within the darkness of the recently built Berlin Wall, Alec Leamas watches as his last broker is shot dead by East-German sentries. For Leamas, the top of Berlin Stop, the Cold-War has ended. As he confronts the chance of pension or worse—a table job—Control provides him a distinctive chance for vengeance. Accepting the guise of an embittered and dissolute ex-broker, Leamas is established to lure Mundt, the deputy representative of the East-German Intellect Service—with herself whilst the lure.