The Department has faded since the war, effectively mothballed, without agents or resources. But now, with intelligence of a possible missile threat, it again has a mission. This is a chance to prove its influence to those at the Circus, like George Smiley, who think the Department's time has passed. The opportunity to reclaim former glory cannot be missed - even though it means putting men's lives at desperate risk on foreign soil. THE LOOKING GLASS WAR ia a gripping story of the amorality of espionage -- unflinching in its depiction of the men involved, who are as much full of vanity and fear as of selflessness and courage.

The Looking Glass War

Literature & Fiction

John Le Carre,John Le Carr?,John Le Carre

Genre Fiction

Hodder Sceptre Pb

In these three masterly novels, John le Carre brings to thrilling life the shadowy battlegrounds of the Cold War - a war of ambiguous victories and hidden defeats orchestrated from the corridors of the Circus and Moscow Centre, and staffed by an army of moles and lamplighters, scalphunters and pavement artists. Stalking each other through this twilight landscape are the incomparable George Smiley and his ruthless opposite number, codenamed Karla, the Soviet case officer who has been slowly masterminding the Circus's ruin. Their extraordinary duel not only raised the spy novel to new heights of realism and complexity, it also constitutes one of the major triumphs of contemporary fiction, confirming John le Carre as a profound chronicler of the post-war world and a novelist of unfailing humanity.

Smiley Versus Karla: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the Honourable Schoolboy, Smiley's People

Hodder&Stoughton

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Books by John Le Carre,John Le Carr?,John Le Carre

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The Looking Glass War

Smiley Versus Karla: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the Honourable Schoolboy, Smiley's People