Len Deighton

"In 1963, Berlin is dark and dangerous. Len Deighton's skilled, jaded, anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File is now set to arrange the defection-and fake the death-of a leading Soviet scientist. "A ferociously cool fable" (New York Times) and one of the first novels written after the construction of the Berlin Wall, Funeral in Berlin revels in the fraught, chilling atmosphere of a divided city"--

"Len Deighton's classic first novel, whose protagonist is a nameless spy - later christened Harry Palmer and made famous worldwide in the iconic 1960s film starring Michael Caine. A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister. With its sardonic,...

The trouble begins in Mexico, where Samson is on the trail of his Soviet opposite number: Erich Stinnes, a KGB major whom London Central wishes to recruit, to enroll, to coax over to the West ... The task of laying the delicate and elaborate groundwork for Stinnes's defection propels Samson from Mexico to London, to Paris, Berlin, and the Wast-West border. What happens along the way -- a temporary abduction, an unnecessary murder, an inconvenient...

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 be a routine murder investigation sends him into a world of espionage, deceit, and betrayal.

A spy novel on British agent Bernard Samson as he searches for his missing brother-in-law, an Englishman of Polish origin. The search takes him to Poland and involves him in a series of adventures. The time is 1987, the story taking place amid the turmoil of the Solidarity movement which led to the fall of Communism. By the author of Charity.

With the Cold War drawing to a close, Bernard finds that office life can be just as perilous as field operations and that it's time to consider a new future. The final book in the series that began with Berlin Game.