Uncertain evidence suggests that Soviet missiles are being positioned close to the German border. Film of the Soviet troop movements has gone astray and a courier is dead. An intelligence unit, living in the shadow of The Circus is authorized to put an agent over the frontier.

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A Cold War thriller from the master of spy fiction, John le Carré's The Looking Glass War is a gripping story of double-crosses, audacious bluffs and the ever-present threat of nuclear war, and the fourth George Smiley novel When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with

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Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960 is a detailed historical and critical overview of espionage in British film and television in the important period since 1960. From that date, the British spy screen was transformed under the influence of the tremendous success of James Bond in the cinema