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THE LOOKING GLASS WAR, classic John le Carr , is a damning indictment of an amateur attitude in a professional world. It is about a small intelligence agency, a left-over from the war that by the late sixties had been over for more than twenty years, which is virtually defunct but valued for its archives.
A rumour of odd troop movements in East Germany prompts it to an overflight by a pilot of a commercial aircraft to take photographs while pretending to go off course. The man from the agency trying to collect the film he has taken is killed, apparently from a hit and run accident, though the film has been taken from the body.......
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| ISBN 13: | 9781408400869 |
| ISBN 10: | 1408400863 |
| Binding: | Audio |
| Released: | 01/12/2009 |
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John le Carre was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Bern and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service.
His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a wide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People.
His most autobiographical novel, A Perfect Sky, was followed by The Russia House, The Secret Pilgrim, The Night Manager, Our Game,The Tailor of Panama and Single and Single.
The Constant Gardener is his eighteenth novel. His readings of his own novels are widely acclaimed. He lives in Cornwall.
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