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THE LOOKING-GLASS WAR
by Le Carre, John
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- Signed
- first
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Middletown, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, (1965). First edition. An incompetent British intelligence agency known as "The Department" and its multiple botched attempts to verify a Communist defector's story of a Soviet missile build-up in East Germany. INSCRIBED BY LE CARRE on front endpaper, "S. Sanders/ best wishes/ John le Carre." Page edges foxed and two small stains to rear pastedown otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket with inconspicuous creases, touch of finish separation, and red on spine mellowed to pink, as is endemic to this jacket (lettering still quite readable).
Synopsis
"You are either good or bad, and both are dangerous." It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all things political, while the Department dealt with matters military. But the Department has been moribund since the War, its resources siphoned away. Now, one of their agents is dead, and vital evidence verifying the presence of Soviet missiles near the West German border is gone. John Avery is the Department's younger member and its last hope. Charged with handling Fred Leiser, a German-speaking Pole left over from the War, Avery must infiltrate the East and restore his masters' former glory. John le Carre's The Looking Glass War is a scorching portrayal of misplaced loyalties and innocence lost. With an introduction by the author.
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- Bookseller
- Quill & Brush
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55552
- Title
- THE LOOKING-GLASS WAR
- Author
- Le Carre, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1965)
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