This article is about a 1965 spy novel. For the novel reimagining Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, see The Looking Glass Wars. For the film, see The Looking Glass War (film).
The Looking Glass War
First-edition cover
Author
John le Carré
Series
George Smiley
Genre
Spy novel
Publisher
William Heinemann (UK) & Putnam (USA)
Publication date
June 1965
Publication place
United Kingdom
Media type
Print (hardcover)
Pages
246
ISBN
0-434-41200-7
Preceded by
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Followed by
A Small Town in Germany
The Looking Glass War is a 1965 spy novel by John le Carré. Written in response to the positive public reaction to his previous novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, the book explores the unglamorous nature of espionage and the danger of nostalgia. The book tells the story of an incompetent British military intelligence agency known as The Department and its multiple botched attempts to verify a Communist defector's story of a Soviet missile buildup in East Germany. Some editions hyphenate "Looking Glass".
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