A review by kris_mccracken
The Looking Glass War by John le Carré

4.0

Again, le Carré impresses with a tale that presents a starker reality of the "spy game" as an extension of the same petty bureaucratic struggles between middle management intent on maintaining their pathetic little fiefdoms against the tide of necessity and common sense.

A depressing, bleak work that makes its point with the tremendous, crushing inevitability of the denouement.