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Bradley West
Dec 05, 2015 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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What a great start to the Bernard Samson series, so much so that my appetite for more titles sustained me through the very good "Mexico Set" and then the less intriguing "London Match". Like many of Deighton's works, his deep knowledge of Berlin gives the reader a you-are-there experience. The complex relationships in head office, his doubts about his wife and the pressure of the field all play credibly through Samson's mind.

Meanwhile, there's a British mole to be extracted from the East while t ...more
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Michael Martz
Apr 18, 2019 rated it it was amazing
'Berlin Game' was a revelation for me, a long time fan of the spy genre who'd never cracked open a novel by one of its masters, Len Deighton. I love Cold War-era stories with lower tech spycraft and character driven plots, and this is a great example of that type of novel.

Bernard Samson is an older Brit spy, Berlin born, fluent in German, highly experienced, yet chained to a London desk. A British asset who is relatively high up in the East German government gets a little shaky after providing g ...more
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Feb 02, 2020 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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