The looking glass war - John Le Carr

THE FOURTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL

When
the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic
battles - hears rumours of a missile base near the West German border,
it seems the perfect opportunity to regain some standing in the
Intelligence world. Desperate for glory and determined to outdo their
rivals at the Circus, including George Smiley, they send deactivated
agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany, armed only with some schoolboy
training and his memories of the war. In the land of eloquent silence
that is Communist East Germany, Leiser's fate is no longer his own.

Showing men carried away by fear and pride, The Looking Glass War is a powerful, moving story of human frailty.

'A devastating and tragic record of human, not glamour, spies' New York Herald Tribune

'A book of rare and great power' Financial Times