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Le Carré shows espionage at its best and worst in this novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics

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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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A book of rare and great power Financial Times

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Carré, John le
John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.

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