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“The Looking Glass War is a very, very bleak story…it’s darkly humorous, but the humor is buried quite deep under this bleak tale of a completely incompetent intelligence operation that is mounted by a small intelligence service in Britain…I think it may be le Carré’s best work. The bleak emptiness of the motivations really says something about the cynicism of the world of espionage, particularly, perhaps, in the early period of the Cold War.” Read more...
