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The Looking Glass War
George Smiley Book 4
Book 4 of the George Smiley series.A fading British intelligence department seizes on a rumour of Soviet missiles in East Germany and tries to run one last secret mission. Ill-prepared men, old rivalries and wishful thinking turn the operation into a slow-motion disaster.
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A fading British intelligence department seizes on a rumour of Soviet missiles in East Germany and tries to run one last secret mission. Ill-prepared men, old rivalries and wishful thinking turn the operation into a slow-motion disaster.
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A good next step after The Looking Glass War is Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
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The Looking Glass War was published in 1965.