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
