Nancy’s Reviews > The Looking Glass War > Status Update

Long chapter describing the 'training' out new "man inside" needs before deployment to Germany. The training also highlights the relationships between Haldane (Capt.Hawiins), John Avery (his staff member) and the new recruit (Leiser). Leiser is fluent in German but is a bit old having served in WW II. Bringing Leiser out of the "mothballs" is a real challenge!

Slow start, lots of discussion as to the next plan of action: getting one of our men "inside". Always difficult to tell the widow of one of the agents that he has "had an accident."

I'm going to finish the "George Smiley's" series this year by Le Carré. After a busy day reading all sorts of books (classic, French, NF, essays ...reading John Le Carré feels like a warm blanket I can curl up in, stay warm and enjoy some bedtime reading that is comforting, and impossible to put down.