Berlin Game

The Berlin Game trilogy made lockdown possible. -- Olivia Laing
Deighton's outstanding achievementis the nine-volume series chronicling the life and times of Bernard Samson ... Deighton's Samson trilogies are as much about the elusiveness of human interactions as espionage. Spying is not a secret world sealed off from ordinary life but an extension of the world we all live in. -- John Gray * New Statesman *
Spying at its most captivating and intricate. -- Marcel Berlins * The Times *
Deighton's best novel to date - sharp, witty and sour, like Raymond Chandler adapted to British gloom and the multiple betrayals of the private spy. * Observer *
Virtuoso top level performance. * The Guardian *
Sheer consistent rightness page after page after page. * The Times *
A labyrinthine espionage epic lightened with laconic wit. -- Jeremy Duns * The Times *
Deighton, as always, makes the familiar twists and turns of spy errantry new again, partly by his grip of narrative, partly by his grasp of character, and partly by his easy, sardonic tone. * New Yorker *
Len Deighton's spy novels are so good they make me sad the Cold War is over. -- Malcolm Gladwell