The Looking Glass War - by John Le Carré (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"First published in Great Britain by William Heinemann Ltd. 1965"--T.p. verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>A Legacy of Spies.</i> </b> <p/> <i>You are either good or bad, and both are dangerous.</i> <p/> It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all things political, while the Department dealt with matters military. But the Department has been moribund since the War, its resources siphoned away. Now, one of their agents is dead, and vital evidence verifying the presence of Soviet missiles near the West German border is gone. John Avery is the Department's younger member and its last hope. Charged with handling Fred Leiser, a German-speaking Pole left over from the War, Avery must infiltrate the East and restore his masters' former glory.<p>John le Carre's <i>The Looking Glass War </i>is a scorching portrayal of misplaced loyalties and innocence lost. <p/> With an introduction by the author.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A book of rare and great power.<i>--Financial Times</i> -- <b><i>Financial Times</i> (U.K.)</b> <p/>A bitter, bleak, superlatively written novel.<i>--Publishers Weekly</i><br> -- <b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a con man, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, <i>Call for the Dead</i>, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, <i>The Spy Who Came in from the Cold</i>, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy <i>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy</i>, <i>The Honourable Schoolboy</i>, and <i>Smiley's People</i>. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, <i>The Pigeon Tunnel</i>, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, <i>A Legacy of Spies</i>, appeared in 2017. He died on December 12, 2020.
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