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The Looking Glass War
First published 1965
About the book
A satire about an incompetent military espionage organization trying to regain its former glory by attempting to verify a Communist defector’s story of a Soviet missile buildup in East Germany. While still funded by Whitehall, the organization is losing ground against the Circus which is more professional and more organized, as well as more successful.
Readers on Hardcover call it adventurous, emotional and tense.
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Catalogue record
- Author
- Carré, John le, 1931–2020
- Statement
- The Looking Glass War / John le Carré.
Book facts
- Pages
- 246
- ISBN
- 978-0-330-20210-7
4 more ISBNs
- 978-0-553-23693-4
- 978-0-7366-0078-1
- 978-0-517-39549-3
- 978-0-340-73360-8
- Records
- Open Library Wikidata
