Alec Leamas is a worn-down British intelligence officer during the height of the Cold War who is preparing to leave a long career of espionage behind him, until spymaster George Smiley presents him with one final, very dangerous assignment. Leamas is then pulled back into a web of betrayal and manipulation. Sent undercover into East Germany, he must take on the new identity of a disgraced agent in order to ensnare an enemy operative. This mission becomes far more complex when