antij 's review for:

The Looking Glass War by John le Carré
3.0

This story was very much not a political thriller and pointedly so. As he points out in the introduction, le Carre wanted to show the muddled and backstabbing nature of actual intelligence agencies. And unlike most stories where our protagonists are gallant heroes, as the story comes to an end you see they're more like a sick dog that needs to be put down. It's certainly a different attempt at storytelling and possibly even a brave one.