About “The Looking Glass War”
The Looking Glass War is a 1965 spy novel by John le Carré, written in response to the positive public reaction to his previous novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. It explores the unglamorous nature of espionage and the danger of nostalgia, following an incompetent British military intelligence agency, The Department, through its botched attempts to verify a Communist defector's story of a Soviet missile buildup in East Germany. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- First published
- 1969
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