· Le Carré’s next book, written in the unexpected glare of fame, is usually overlooked. And yet The Looking Glass War is his most underrated novel, its themes resonating especially sharply in Estimated Reading Time: 50 secs. The Looking Glass War is billed as “A George Smiley Novel.” It is the fourth installment in the series of John Le Carré books where Smiley plays a part, but his role here is very small. The main story concerns the U.K.’s “Department” (military intelligence) competing with its “Circus” (political intelligence) for glory/5(K). The Looking Glass War by John Le Carre was published after his runaway bestseller The Spy Who Came In from the Cold was first published in However, Le Carre felt that the book failed to explore the realities of spying on the ground, as he knew them, and tended to glamorize espionage/5.
John le Carré followed up the success of The Spy who came in from the Cold with a different take on the spying game - The Looking Glass War. Le Carré turned everything on its head by showing us the bumbling fools of The Department - an old boys club of war veterans who think they can revitalise their careers with a dash of espionage. A Cold War thriller from the master of spy fiction, John le Carré's The Looking Glass War is a gripping story of double-crosses, audacious bluffs and the ever-present threat of nuclear war, and the fourth George Smiley novel 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. Get full version of this audiobook for free(30 day free trial)www.doorway.ru?tag=cheapsearch0b Best Literature Fiction AudioBooks.
The Looking Glass War: Directed by Frank Pierson. With Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Ralph Richardson, Paul Rogers. From the John le Carré novel about a British spy, who sends a Polish defector to East Germany, to verify missile sites. As author intended, LOOKING GLASS WAR critiqued incompetence, less tragic than the ruthless pragmatism of THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD and related flaws depicted in later Le Carre novels. Although later books included portrayals of incompetence, LOOKING GLASS WAR is only one I can remember in which the layered causes and effects of incompetence are central. Get full version of this audiobook for free(30 day free trial)www.doorway.ru?tag=cheapsearch0b Best Literature Fiction AudioBooks.
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