Looking Glass War John le Carré

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  • 9780141196398
  • 03 november 2011
  • 272 pagina's
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John le Carré

John le Carré, geboren in 1931, studeerde aan de universiteiten van Bern en Oxford. Tijdens de Koude Oorlog werkte hij enige tijd bij de Britse Inlichtingendienst. Hij schreef meer dan vijftig jaar romans die onze tijd karakteriseren, van zijn buitengewone romans over de Koude Oorlog tot zijn indrukwekkende schildering van de ‘War on Terror’.

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When the Department - faded since the war and 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 and the Department is dying for a piece of the action.



A Cold War thriller from the master of spy fiction, John le Carré's The Looking Glass War is a gripping novel of double-crosses, audacious bluffs and the ever-present threat of nuclear war, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

When the Department - faded since the war and 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 and the Department is dying for a piece of the action.

Swiftly becoming carried away by fear and pride, the Department and her officers send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany, armed only with some schoolboy training and 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 Carré's The Secret Pilgrim, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

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

'A book of rare and great power'
Financial Times

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  • George Smiley returns to Germany

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    First published in 1965 after the worldwide success of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Le Carré once more, in a sense, returns to WW II. In his debut Call for the Dead, he introduced his readers to George Smiley (GS), who had “a very nasty war”, spending four years in (pre-) wartime Germany. The Looking Glass War is situated in Finland, the UK and Germany, some 20 years after the war.
    WW II is still very much on the minds of the surviving senior staff of a small section of the Ministry of Defence, which has been downsized and marginalised during the two decades since WW II. It still has an archive on armaments and military matters, and a network of couriers performing legitimate duties, even some rather dubious networks. Neither senior nor junior staff have been operational in recent times. Until suddenly a chain of events unfurls, prompted by rumours of a new missile site near the border with West Germany, which may or may not develop into something momentous. If handled well , it may put the agency back on the map again...
    GS performs different roles at different stages of the novel. He is never a dominant character, and in the end he is not saving the day but preventing worse from happening. As always Le Carré can pin down a character with a few lines of speech. Accordingly, plenty of rope is handed out in this volume. A sad and very devious book. Great on atmosphere, context and action. Highly recommended.

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