TV Series created by Stephen Cornwell

Adapts the smash hit John le Carré novel "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" while also drawing on material from his 2017 novel "A Legacy of Spies."

It is 1962: the height of the Cold War and only months after the building of the Berlin Wall. Alex Leamas is a hard-working, hard-drinking British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters. His agents are either on the run or dead, victims of the ruthlessly efficient East German counter-intelligence officer Hans-Dieter Mundt. Leamas is recalled to London - where, to his surprise, he's offered a chance at revenge. But to get it, he may have to stay out in the cold a little longer...