
A Cold War thriller from the master of spy fiction John le Carre's The Looking Glass War is a gripping novel of double-crosses audacious bluffs & the ever-present threat of nuclear war published in Penguin Modern Classics When the Department
- faded since the war & 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 & the Department is dying for a piece of the action Swiftly becoming carried away by fear & pride the Department & her officers send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany armed only with some schoolboy training & 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 If you enjoyed The Looking Glass War you might like le Carre's The Secret Pilgrim also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A devastating & tragic record of human not glamour spies' New York Herald Tribune'A book of rare & great power' Financial Times