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"Spy Hook" is a 1988 Cold War espionage novel by British author Len Deighton. It serves as the first installment in the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy, which continues the story of Bernard Samson, a middle-aged intelligence officer working for MI6. The narrative follows Samson as he investigates the...

Berlin Game is a 1983 spy novel by British author Len Deighton, the first book in the Game, Set and Match trilogy followed by Mexico Set and London Match. The novel introduces Bernard Samson, an MI6 intelligence officer based in London, who is tasked with extracting an aging agent from East Berlin w...

"London Match" is a Cold War spy novel by British author Len Deighton, published in 1985. It serves as the concluding volume of the Game, Set & Match trilogy, which follows MI6 intelligence officer Bernard Samson. The plot centers on Samson's efforts to uncover a mole within British intelligence whi...

Spy Sinker is a Cold War espionage novel by Len Deighton published in 1990. It serves as the final book in the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy, which also includes Berlin Game and Mexico Set. The narrative uniquely retells the events of the previous two installments from the perspective of Fiona Samso...

"Charity" is a 1996 spy novel by British author Len Deighton. It serves as the final installment of the "Faith, Hope and Charity" trilogy and concludes the overarching nine-novel Bernard Samson series, which Deighton published over a span of thirteen years. The narrative resolves the Cold War-era ex...

Mexico Set (1984) is the second novel in Len Deighton's Cold War trilogy Game, Set and Match, preceded by Berlin Game (1983) and followed by London Match (1985). The novel follows MI6 officer Bernard Samson as he travels to Mexico City to attempt to turn a KGB officer. Deighton, a British author kno...

Billion-Dollar Brain is a Cold War spy novel written by British author Len Deighton and published in 1966. It is the fourth novel to feature Deighton's unnamed, working-class British intelligence protagonist, famously named Harry Palmer in the subsequent film adaptations. The plot centers on a reclu...

Horse Under Water is Len Deighton's second novel about an unnamed British intelligence officer, published in 1963. The story centers on an operation to recover material from a German Type XXI U-boat sunk off the Portuguese coast near the end of the Second World War. It combines espionage, investigat...

An Expensive Place to Die is Len Deighton's 1967 standalone spy novel, set in Paris during the Cold War. Its plot brings together a private clinic, a secret NATO dossier, and intelligence operators whose decisions are shaped by compromised loyalties and uncertain motives. The book belongs to the esp...

Len Deighton's 1974 novel in which naval war-games analyst Pat Armstrong discovers someone has been living under his identity while he is drawn into a real Cold War operation.