Len Deighton

Bernard Samson suspects there is a traitor within his department of MI6. A jaded but highly skilled British intelligence agent nearing the end of his career, Samson already got KGB major Eric Stinnes to defect. But when a British KGB agent makes a sweeping confession with a suspicious undertone, the finger points straight back to London-where Stinnes is locked up, refusing to talk. The spy who's in the clear doesn't exist. In the spec­tacular third...

"Deighton's best book . . . an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation." -The New York Times Book Review It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at first appears to...