John le Carré - THE LOOKING GLASS WAR

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THE LOOKING GLASS WAR

THE LOOKING GLASS

WAR

BY JOHN LE CARRE

The carrying of a very heavy

weight such as a large suitcase

or trunk, immediately before

sending practice, renders the

muscles of the forearm, wrist and

fingers too insensitive to

produce good Morse.

--F. TAIT'S

Complete Morse Instructor, Pitman

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Foreword

None of the characters, clubs,

institutions or intelligence

organizations I have described

here or elsewhere exists, or has

existed to my knowledge in real

life. I wish to make that very

clear.

My thanks are due to the Radio

Society of Great Britain and to

Mr. R. E. Molland, to the editors

and staff of Aviation Week and

Space Technology, and to Mr.

Ronald Coles, all of whom

provided me with valuable

technical advice; and to Miss

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Elizabeth Tollinton for her

secretarial help.

I must thank above all my wife

for her untiring cooperation.

JOHN LE CARRÉ

Agios Nikolaos, Crete

May, 1964

ONE

Taylor's Run

A fool lies here who tried to

hustle the East.

--Kipling

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ONE

SNOW COVERED THE airfield.

It had come from the north, in

the mist, driven by the night

wind, smelling of the sea. There

it would stay all winter,

threadbare on the gray earth, an

icy, sharp dust; not thawing and

freezing, but static like a year

without seasons. The changing

mist, like the smoke of war,

would hang over it, swallow up

now a hangar, now the radar hut,

now the machines; release them

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piece by piece, drained of color,

black carrion on a white desert.

It was a scene of no depth, no

recession and no shadows. The

land was one with the sky;

figures and buildings locked in

the cold like bodies in an ice

floe.

Beyond the airfield there was

nothing; no house, no hill, no

road; not even a fence, a tree;

only the sky pressing on the

dunes, the running fog that

lifted on the muddy Baltic shore.

Somewhere inland were the

mountains.

A group of children in school

caps had gathered at the long

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observation window, chattering in

German. Some wore ski clothes.

Taylor gazed dully past them,

holding a glass in his gloved

hand. A boy turned around and

stared at him, blushed and

whispered to the other children.

They fell silent.

He looked at his watch, making a

wide arc with his arm, partly to

free the sleeve of his overcoat

and partly because it was his

style; a military man, he wished

you to say, decent regiment,

decent club, knocked around in

the war.

Ten to four. The plane was an

hour late. They would have to

announce the reason soon over the

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loudspeaker. He wondered what

they would say: delayed by fog,

perhaps; delayed takeoff.

They probably didn't even know--

and they certainly would not

admit--that she was two hundred

miles off course, and south of

Rostock. He finished his drink,

turned to get rid of the empty

glass. He had to admit that some

of these foreign hooches, drunk

in their own country, weren't at

all bad. On the spot, with a

couple of hours to kill and ten

degrees of frost the other side

of the window, you could do a lot

worse than Steinhager. He'd make

them order it at the Alias Club

when he got back. Cause quite a

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stir.

The loudspeaker was humming; it

blared suddenly, faded out and

began again, properly tuned. The

children stared expectantly at

it. First, the announcement in

Finnish, then in Swedish, now in

English. Northern Air Services

regretted the delay to their

charter flight two-nine-zero from

Dusseldorf. No hint of how long,

no hint of why. They probably

didn't know themselves.

But Taylor knew. He wondered what

would happen if he sauntered over

to that pert little hostess in

the glass box and told her: two-

nine-zero will be a bit of time

yet, my dear, she's been blown

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off course by heavy northerly

gales over the Baltic, bearings

all to Hades. The girl wouldn't

believe him, of course, she'd

think he was a crank. Later she'd

know better. She'd realize he was

something rather unusual,

something rather special.

Outside it was already growing

dark. Now the ground was lighter

than the sky; the swept runways

stood out against the snow like

dykes, stained with the amber

glow of marking lights. In the

nearest hangars neon tubes shed a

weary pallor over men and

airplanes; the foreground beneath

him sprang briefly to life as a

beam from the control tower

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flicked across it. A fire engine

had pulled away from the

workshops on the left and joined

the three ambulances already

parked short of the center

runway. Simultaneously they

switched on their blue rotating

lights, and stood in line

patiently flashing out their

warning. The children pointed at

them, chattering excitedly.

The girl's voice began again on

the loudspeaker, it could only

have been a few minutes since the

last announcement. Once more the

children stopped talking and

listened. The arrival of flight

two-nine-zero would be delayed at

least another hour. Further

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