While set in the era of the Berlin Wall and Russian Communism and thus perhaps a little dated, the story is finely crafted and a pleasure to read. What I found particularly enjoyable is that, unlike many authors, the opposing sides are written up as being a mixture of the professional and the bumbling amateur without the racial bias of the author being demonstrated. (

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AndrewCottingham | Jun 22, 2009 |

Not bad. Bernard Samson is interesting even if the game is not. (

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DromJohn | Jun 29, 2008 |

Defectors and moles.

Len Deighton's Game, Set Match trilogy is of a similar style to John Le Carre's books about George Smiley.

A quiet, unassuming, unheroic and unprepossessing and sometimes overlooked spy is wasted in obscurity until someone realises he is the right man for the job to help out in a defection.

Life soon gets too adventurous for Bernard Samson when he realises there are problems in his own office with enemy spies.

Good, intelligent espionage fiction is to be found here.

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bluetyson | Nov 4, 2007 |

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Game, Set, Match trilogy (1)

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1983

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1983)

Martin Beck Award (1984)

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"How long have we been sitting here?" I said.

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Berlin Game

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0345314980, Mass Market Paperback)

When a valuable agent behind the Iron Curtain signals he wants out, it's up to Bernard Samson, once active in the field but now anchored to a London desk, to undertake the crucial rescue. But soon, Samson is confronted with evidence that there is a traitor among his colleagues. And to find out who it is, he must sift through layers of lies and follow a web of treachery from London to Berlin until hero and traitor collide.
"Each scene in this story is so adroitly realized that it creates its own suspense."
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