Len Deighton
1) London Match
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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...
2) Mexico Set
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When disaffected KGB major Erich Stinnes is spotted in Mexico City, British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice him to take the final step and defect. With his domestic life in shambles and his career heading towards disaster, Bernard needs to prove his reliability. And he knows Stinnes already: Bernard had been interrogated by him in East Berlin. But now, Bernard risks being entangled in a lethal web of old loyalties and old betrayals.All...
3) MAMista
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Deep in Marxist Guerilla territory a hopeless war is being fought.
The Berlin Wall is demolished. Marx is dead. Try telling that to Ramon and his desperate men hiding in the jungle cradling their AK 47s, dusting off the slabs of Semtex and dreaming of world revolution.
MAMista takes us to the dusty, violent capital of Spanish Guiana in South America, and thence into the depths of the rain forest; the heart of darkness itself. There, four people become...
4) SS-GB
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"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...
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A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton's iconic unnamed protagonist-later christened Harry Palmer-to find out why. His search begins in a grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he ends up amongst the Soviets in Beirut, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister.
With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len...
7) Bomber
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"Events relating to the last flight of an RAF Bomber over Germany on the night of June 31st, 1943. An RAF bomber crew prepares for a bombing raid on Ruhr in western Germany. Masterful, gripping, and widely considered Len Deighton's greatest novel, Bomber is a minute-by-minute account of what occurs over the next twenty-four hours. Told through the eyes of protagonists on all sides - including the British RAF crew, a Luftwaffe night fighter pilot,...
8) Berlin game
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Brahms Four is the best East German source the British ever had, but now he wants desperstely to come over the wall and escape from Berlin before he is exposed by a mole. There is only one person he still trusts: British agent Bernard Samson of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). In this opening book Len Deighton's Game, Set, Match series, Samson is thrown back into the field after having been retired to a desk job five years earlier. But before...
11) Faith
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Bernard Samson has known that he is not getting the full picture from London Central ever since discovering that his wife Fiona is a double agent.
14) Charity
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v, 279 pages ; 25 cm
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A British spy in 1980s Berlin investigates the death of his sister-in-law. She may have been murdered by his own service to save the life of his wife, also a spy. A tale of double agents and sacrificial lambs by the author of Hope.
ESPIONAGE & SPY THRILLER. Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY Bernard continues to chip away at the mystery of his sister-in-law Tessa Kosinski's death...
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ON 14 June 1919 — eight years before Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic — two men from Manchester took off in an open-cockpit Vickers Vimy and flew into the history books. They battled through a sixteen-hour journey of snow, ice and continuous cloud, with a non-functioning wireless and a damaged exhaust that made it impossible to hear each other. And then, just five hours away from Ireland and high above the sea, the Vimy stalled....