SS-GB: an old classic about to become a TV series
Long before Robert Harris’s Fatherland and CJ Sansom’s Dominion, there was Len Deighton’s alternative history based on the Nazis winning, SS-GB. … Read the full post »
Len Deighton
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Charity – a fitting finale to Len Deighton’s Bernard Samson triple trilogy
With Charity Len Deighton’s triple trilogy about secret serviceman Bernard Samson comes to an excellent, if somewhat ambiguous, conclusion. … Read the full post »
Hope – Len Deighton picks up the pace in 8th Bernard Samson book
Hope, the penultimate book in Len Deighton’s triple trilogy about British secret serviceman Bernard Samson, picks up the pace again after the treading of water in the previous Faith … Read the full post »
Faith: book seven of nine in Deighton’s triple trilogy treads water
Faith, the seventh book in Len Deighton’s trilogy of trilogies about British secret agent Bernard Samson, starts off the third trilogy with a littler bit of a whimper. … Read the full post »
Spy Sinker by Len Deighton: a really clever successor to the preceding five volumes
Len Deighton’s Spy Sinker continues the tale of MI6 man Bernard Samson but this time by doubling back over earlier plots, retelling them from other perspectives. … Read the full post »
Spy Line by Len Deighton: once again, past events are shaken up and given a new angle
Spy Line is the middle book in the middle trilogy about Len Deighton’s MI6 man during the Cold War, Bernard Samson. … Read the full post »
Spy Hook by Len Deighton: best read after the first trilogy
Spy Hook kicks off a new trilogy featuring MI6 man Bernard Samson. It is best read after the Game / Set / Match trilogy as so much of the plot depends on it. … Read the full post »
London Match by Len Deighton: a satisfying end to the trilogy
London Match is the final book in the first of three trilogies (i.e. the third book out of a set of nine) which Len Deighton wrote featuring flawed MI6 man Bernard Samson. … Read the full post »
Mexico Set by Len Deighton: best read after its predecessor
Mexico Set is the second in Len Deighton’s Game, Set and Match espionage trilogy featuring Bernard Samson. … Read the full post »
Berlin Game by Len Deighton
Although a tense spy thriller, Berlin Game is really a slow and thoughtful tale where much of the tension comes not from pyrotechnics but from the nagging doubt about whether or not there is going to be a sudden burst of action. … Read the full post »