Looking Glass War (Smiley Collection)

THE FOURTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL

Whenthe Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucraticbattles - hears rumours of a missile base near the West German border,it seems the perfect opportunity to regain some standing in theIntelligence world. Desperate for glory and determined to outdo theirrivals at the Circus, including George Smiley, they send deactivatedagent Fred Leiser back into East Germany, armed only with some schoolboytraining and his memories of the war. In the land of eloquent silencethat is Communist East Germany, Leiser's fate is no longer his own.

Showing men carried away by fear and pride, The Looking Glass War is a powerful, moving story of human frailty.

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

'A book of rare and great power' Financial Times

Reviews

Le Carré's most underrated novel is a devastating and first-class read