The Looking Glass War
1965 novel by John le Carré / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about a 1965 spy novel. For the novel reimagining Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, see The Looking Glass Wars. For the film, see The Looking Glass War (film).
The Looking Glass War is a 1965 spy novel by John le Carré. Written in response to the positive public reaction to his previous novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, the book explores the unglamorous nature of espionage and the danger of nostalgia. The book tells the story of an incompetent British military intelligence agency known as The Department and its multiple botched attempts to verify a Communist defector's story of a Soviet missile buildup in East Germany. Some editions hyphenate "Looking Glass".
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Author | John le Carré |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Series | George Smiley |
Genre | Spy novel |
Publisher | William Heinemann (UK) & Putnam (USA) |
Publication date | June 1965 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 246 |
ISBN | 0-434-41200-7 |
Preceded by | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
Followed by | A Small Town in Germany |
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