The Looking Glass War (The Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection) - Hardcover

Le Carré, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241337143 ISBN 13: 9780241337141

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2019

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.

'A devastating and tragic record of human, not glamour, spies'
New York Herald Tribune

'A book of rare and great power'
Financial Times

About this title

About the Author:

John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0241337143
• ISBN 13: 9780241337141
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288