The Looking Glass War
The Looking Glass War
The Looking Glass War
Author: John le Carré
Published: June 1965
Publishers: Penguin UK Penguin US
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The Looking Glass War

Synopsis

When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border, it seems like the perfect opportunity to regain some political standing in the Intelligence market place. The Cold War is at its height and the Department is dying for a piece of the action.

Swiftly becoming carried away by fear and pride, the Department and her officers send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany, armed only with some schoolboy training and his memories of the war. In the land of eloquent silence that is Communist East Germany, Leiser's fate becomes inseparable from the Department's.

Reviews
'A devastating and tragic record of human, not glamour, spies'
The New York Herald Tribune
'A book of rare and great power'
The Financial Times
Characters
Leclerc
Adrian Haldane
John Avery
Fred Leiser
Jack Johnson
George Smiley
Control
Locations
Kalkstadt (fictional)
near Lübeck, West Germany
Finland
Oxford, UK
East Germany
Details
Author: John le Carré
Published: June 1965
Publishers: Penguin UK Penguin US
Available in:
Paperback
eBook
Buy a copy from:
UK USA
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