Adrian Haldane: Veteran intelligence officer for The Department who has served since World War II. To get aerial photographs, The Department pays a civilian pilot to "accidentally" divert his flight over the area. In return, he would have salary, insurance, and political asylum. Leclerc avoids involving The Circus directly, representing the operation as a training exercise in order to obtain an obsolete crystal radio from Smiley. Written in response to the positive public reaction to his previous novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, the book explores the unglamorous nature of espionage and the danger of nostalgia. Haldane and Leclerc are mollified by their new roles within an appended Research Section to the Circus; only Avery sobs inconsolably over the futility of the operation and the loss of Leiser. The Looking Glass War is a 1970 British neo-noir action-thriller film directed by Frank Pierson based on the 1965 novel by John le Carr é The Looking Glass War. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it starred Ian McDiarmid as Leclerc, Piotr Baumann as Leiser, Patrick Kennedy as Avery, and Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley.
Their agent, Taylor King (Timothy West), who receives a film which might clarify the detail from a pilot in Finland, is found dead on the road, and the Police believe he was accidentally killed in a hit-and-run. Although The Department ran successful aerial reconnaissance missions against the Nazis during the Second World War, it has since slipped into irrelevance and risks being assimilated by its rival, the more experienced and professional "Circus," led by chief "Control" and his second-in-command,
When Leiser crosses the border, he meets up with Anna (Pia Degermark), a local, and they stay together in the beginning of a dangerous journey where he is just a pawn in a war game. Plot Keywords Assigned to run the operation and handle Leiser's training and infiltration into East Germany.
1965, USA, Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, Book Club Edition, Hardback, This page was last edited on 29 May 2020, at 22:21. After stealing a motorcycle, he meets a young German girl who agrees to give him aid in exchange for companionship and the hope of taking her back to the West. The defector has a history of trying to sell fabricated "information" to Western services, the photographs he provided as evidence are dubious, and Leiser was unable to corroborate any part of his story. It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. | [5] As with other plays in this series it is now available as a CD set as ISBN 978-1-4084-0086-9. Leiser makes radio transmissions forgetting to change frequencies as he continues to fixate on the border guard's death. Once behind the Iron Curtain, Leiser meets a sympathetic German girl (Pia Degermark), who tries to help him to evade the East German Secret Police and to complete his assignment. However, the celebration … Leclerc: Director of "The Department;" he can't let go of his glory days running successful aerial operations during WWII. As part of a series of dramatisation of Le Carré's work, the "Complete Smiley" series, BBC Radio produced a radio play of The Looking Glass War in 2009. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Synopsis submission guide. LeClerc meets the Polish defector Fred Leiser (Christopher Jones), who jumped overboard from a ship expecting to have asylum and stay with his British girlfriend, who is pregnant, and decides to recruit him to cross the border and spy on the East German facility to check on the missiles. Control: Director ("operational control") of The Circus. [1], The book received a mixed-to-negative critical response, which le Carré credits to readers being upset that the book presented blatantly incompetent and largely unsympathetic characters. Summary Plot Overview Alice sits in her armchair at home, drowsily watching her pet kitten, Kitty, as she unravels a ball of string. The Department reactivates one of its wartime agents, a middle-aged, naturalised Pole named Fred Leiser. John Avery: 32-year-old aide to Leclerc, personally assigned by Leclerc to assist Haldane in training Leiser. Alyss Heart is celebrating her seventh birthday at home in Heart Palace. Leiser and Avery strike up a deep friendship, with each seeing the other as his last chance at redemption: Avery feels like running a successful agent will mean he's finally done something meaningful with his life, while Leiser- in the throes of a midlife crisis- simply wants to feel useful again.
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