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The Looking Glass War
John LeCarre
This was my next LeCarre book. Involves Smiley as a background character. Involves a young agent who is sent to claim the body of an agent who was "accidently" killed in an auto accident while retreiving film from a pilot. Plot revolves around fear that the Soviets are building Missle batteries in E Germany.. so they activate one of their old operatives from the war and send him over... after a month of intensive training.. The agent runs into immediate trouble.. and then makes some fatal mistakes...
The ending is very vauge... it doesnt say what happens to everybody.. but rather leaves it for you to imagine.. a very effective literay device. This book reminded me very much of Deighton's Spy Story... There are the upper mgt types who take everything in stride, while the young agent is anxious and concerned about the people.. rather than the mission objective in the whole... And of course they are British.. so they are drinking lots of tea while they do everything - lol
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