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The Looking Glass War![]() Stock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionDuring the Second World War, the Department made a name for itself, running agents and missions behind enemy lines. Twenty years on, it is obsolete, run down and in fear of its very existence when the suspicious death of an agent in Finland and the loss of some vital film bring a stay of execution. ReviewsA book of rare and great power Financial Times A devastating and tragic record of human, not glamour, spies New York Herald Tribune A bitter, bleak, superlatively written novel - Publishers Weekly Author descriptionJohn le Carre was born in 1931. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, his third novel, was first published in 1963 and secured him a world-wide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. His recent novels include The Constant Gardener, Absolute Friends, The Mission Song and A Most Wanted Man. Our Kind of Traitor is his twenty-second novel and is published by Penguin. |