Do you know what love is I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray...
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.
A Cold War thriller from the master of spy fiction,John le Carré's The Looking Glass War is a gripping novel of double-crosses,audacious bluffs and the ever-present threat of nuclear war.
'A book of rare and great power.'Financial Times
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141196398Number of pages: 288Weight: 213 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
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A book of rare and great powerA devastating and tragic record of human,not glamour,spies
John le Carré
One of the greatest spy novelists of all time,John le Carré was born in 1931. His third novel,The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,secured him a worldwide reputation,which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People all featuring his most famous character,George Smiley,the quintessential Cold War operative. An antidote to Fleming's racier James Bond,Smiley is cool,thoughtful,somewhat academic and (superficially) "breathtakingly normal"with a somewhat ambivalent attitude to the Service and its efficacy. His other novels,thrillers which range widely covering variously political issues of the arms trade,modern conflict and drug-trafficking,include: A Most Wanted Man,Our Kind of Traitor,A Delicate Truth and the recently adapted The Night Manager. His only work of non-fiction,The Pigeon Tunnel,was a Number One bestseller in 2016.
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