In John le Carré’s haunting spy novel, a fading British intelligence unit sees one last chance to prove its worth by mounting a dangerous clandestine operation behind the Iron Curtain. What begins as a routine mission quickly reveals the fragility of old loyalties, the vanity of bureaucratic ambition, and the grim cost of espionage in a world where ideals have long since been eroded. Unsparing, tense, and darkly ironic, The Looking Glass War is a masterpiece of Cold War disillusionment.