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...LOOKING GLASS WAR, by John le Carré. The author of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold has written another bleak, absorbing novel about Britain's aging espionage agents, their archaic methods, and their attempts to relive World War II glories in cold war intrigue...
FICTION 1. The Source, Michener (1 last week) 2. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (2) 3. The Looking Glass War, le Carré (3) 4. Hotel, Hailey (5) 5. The Ambassador, West (6) 6. The Green Berets, Moore (4) 7. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (7) 8. Night of Camp David, Knebel (8) 9. Herzog, Bellow (10) 10. The Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier (9) NONFICTION 1. The Making of the President, 1964, White (1) 2. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre...
...even more painless stratagem is to latch on to a mystery or thriller writer who is not yet widely known. Fleming and le Carré, of course, are old-gat. So are Britain's Len Deighton (The Ipcress File) and John Creasey (Death of an Assassin), whose books have been made into movies. Georges Simenon, the prolific French author whose Inspector Maigret has solved more than 60 book-length cases to date, has yet to win a mass following in the U.S., despite his fine ear for Gallic nuance and a geographer's eye for locale. One enterprising...
...successful in part because it was almost the exact antithesis of James Bond. Alec Leamas is more than a spy. He is aging and tired, skilled but fallible. Le Carré took infinite literary pains to limn him as an ordinary mortal, susceptible to mundane pressures, capable of cynicism about his craft, who in the end elects to rejoin the society that he never quite left...
...Carré spins out his story with impressive skill. It is not as good a spy story as Spy, which kept the reader guessing to the end as a good espionage story should. In Looking Glass, the author is graduating from his genre, as he promised he would. Having had his say about espionage, a profession that does not transect the common lot, presumably Le Carré will henceforth apply his considerable competence to themes much nearer human experience-and much worthier of his own understanding...