Journal Entry 1 by newk from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Sunday, April 13, 2008

for bookcrossing 

Journal Entry 2 by Bris-Con from Brisbane, Queensland Australia on Friday, April 18, 2008

To be released at the 2008 Australian Bookcrossing Convention - Brisbane!! 

Journal Entry 3 by Bris-Con at BC Brisbane Convention in Brisbane, Queensland Australia on Sunday, June 29, 2008

Released 3 yrs ago (7/4/2008 UTC) at BC Brisbane Convention in Brisbane, Queensland Australia

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Journal Entry 4 by Fleebo at Crown Hotel, Elizabeth St in Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Monday, February 08, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (2/8/2010 UTC) at Crown Hotel, Elizabeth St in Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia

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Time to let this go at a monthly gathering of Bookcrossers - upstairs in the Library Bar. 

Journal Entry 5 by tqd from Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Picked this one up at meetup (bookdrinks!) tonight. I think I have The Spy Who Came in From the Cold somewhere... 

Journal Entry 6 by tqd at Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Looking Glass War is the fourth George Smiley book by John le Carré. Where the previous book, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was about career spies, this is a more bittersweet tale about former military spies, trying to recapture to their former glory. The blurb on the back of my book says it's "a devastating and tragic record of human, not glamour, spies", and I think that's a very good description.

Again, Smiley is hardly the focus of the book. He appears more than he did in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and again one gets the idea that he (and Control) are playing puppet master with the characters in this book. But slightly bewildered puppet masters, as the military spies, led by Leclerc, jealously hide their machinations from the Circus and dig themselves in deeper.

It's another excellent book in this series, and I'm looking forward to reading on.

I've got Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy on the bookcrossing shelves to read next, then I'll bundle all these up into a pile and pass them along as a series.

UPDATE 7 March 2012: On offer at the Oz VBB, along with the other two Smiley books I have...