The Looking Glass War (Push Me Plush Series) [Paperback]

A book of rare and great power (Financial Times )

A devastating and tragic record of human, not glamour, spies (New York Herald Tribune ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

‘A bitter, bleak, superlatively written novel’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

‘A devastating and tragic record of human, not glamour, spies’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

How long was it since the Department had mounted an operation? Too long. Now it has a job on its hands. Uncertain evidence suggests Soviet missiles being put in place close to the German border, while vital film has gone missing and a courier is dead. The Department has to find an old hand who will prove its mettle. Fred Leiser, a German-speaking Pole turned Englishman, once a qualified radio-operator, now something in the motor trade, must be called back to the colours and sent East...

John le Carre was born in 1931. He attended the universities of Bern and Oxford and later taught at Eton. He spent five years in the British Secret Service.