Ukraine war has reignited ‘cold war strategies’, says John le Carré’s son

Nick Harkaway: ‘It does feel as if all the underlying geopolitics of the cold war is still the same.’ Photograph: Felicity McCabe

Russia’s war in Ukraine has reignited “cold war strategies”, according to the son of John le Carré, who announced that an adaptation of his father’s classic novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is coming to the West End for the first time.

Nick Harkaway, who published Karla’s Choice last year, a sequel to the 1963 thriller, said the current geopolitical situation had echoes of the charged postwar period.