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The Looking Glass War
The Looking Glass War
Author: John Le Carre
An experienced agent is mysteriously killed on a freezing night near a foreign airport. Thus begins an intricate mission of military espionage that brings together three desperate men. — The zealot, the pawn, the string puller: each seeks a different kind of glory, each risks the thing he values most, each is caught up in a double-sided game that...  more »
ISBN-13: 9789997545077
ISBN-10: 9997545079
Edition: 1st american
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Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (T)
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Anxious to regain its status as a Whitehall player, an outdated and out-of-fashion intelligence department conceives & launches a covert operation to penetrate the Iron Curtain. Unforgiving bureaucratic satire about the boys-school mentality of the secret world and its often costly games.
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Among other things, the description of running an Agent (Fred Leiser) through the Iron Curtain at night remains one of the best I've seen.

On a larger scale, this is a story of the mounting bureaucratic infighting between a military intelligence operation and the emergent power of the "Circus", Control and George Smiley. Like most good LeCarre novels it is also a story of more primal human emotions and their impact, in this case, on espionage operations. Very much worth the read.
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Long on the recruitment and training of a spy, in this one he comes in from the cold in a different manner. No fluff, straightforward prose; read easily at a single sitting (320 pages).
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Cold War spy tale set between English spys and the Germans.


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