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21%OFFJohn Le Carré - The Looking Glass War - 9780141196398 - V9780141196398
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The Looking Glass War

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Description for The Looking Glass War Paperback. 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. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.

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.

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141196398
SKU
V9780141196398
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About John Le Carré
John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the University of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a ... Read more

Reviews for The Looking Glass War
A book of rare and great power
Financial Times
A devastating and tragic record of human, not glamour, spies
New York Herald Tribune

Goodreads reviews for The Looking Glass War


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