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2000ace 's review for:
The Looking Glass War
by John le Carré
LeCarre excels at bringing the human condition into his work, and nowhere is it more evident than in these pages. An wartime bureaucratic agency is gradually dwindling away until it is provided with information that the Russians are arming missiles on the East German border. Without resources to track down the intelligence, the agency relies upon a former spy behind the Iron Curtain to act as their agent. They constantly have to llie to him so that he will not discover how close to defunct the agency really is. The Circus, the agency that Control and George Smiley and a host of other characters from LeCarre books both written and yet-to-be, get in on the action. As the story unfolds, there are ethical decisions which await, and in the end, the conflict between loyalty to the agent and loyalty to the agency take center stage.
I think this was LeCarre's fourth book. It is more of a character study than an action thriller. That being said, one of the characters being studied is history, and another is government. This book has earned a place of honor for the moral dilemmas it presents to the reader.
I think this was LeCarre's fourth book. It is more of a character study than an action thriller. That being said, one of the characters being studied is history, and another is government. This book has earned a place of honor for the moral dilemmas it presents to the reader.