Great book. To discuss it all I’m going to have to give away bits of the ending and things that happen along the way, and as it’s a book about spies, I should warn you: here be spoilers. Just so you know.
Berlin Game (Harper Books)
Len DeightonHarper 2010, Paperback, 432 pages, £7.99
Bernard Samson, a well-established and senior, but [...]
Still with thrillers but back to more traditional territory with Len Deighton. The nameless spy who became Michael Caine’s Palmer has been posted to Paris and is engaged in a thoroughly routine bit of espionage work.
He has a cover, he has a place to live and a social and professional circle and he has a [...]
More than a month into the year and I hadn’t finished a single book, so I picked up something I was pretty sure I was going to like to assuage the inner voices.
It’s fairly appropriate really, as where The Ipcress File (book 9, 2007) was about class, Funeral in Berlin is about guilt. German guilt [...]
