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Un libro di spionaggio solido, verosimile e che riesce a creare le atmosfere dell’Europa uscita dalla seconda guerra mondiale ed entrata nella guerra fredda.
Personaggi credibili, dialoghi non banali, situazioni per lo più plausibili non facili,soprattutto gli ultimi due, da trovare in molti romanzi di spionaggio.
I sovietici non sono dei cattivi da barzelletta, i tedeschi non ne escono bene, peggio gli israeliani, bene i francesi, così e così gli statunitensi. Ovviamente Britannia rules, ma va ...more
Personaggi credibili, dialoghi non banali, situazioni per lo più plausibili non facili,soprattutto gli ultimi due, da trovare in molti romanzi di spionaggio.
I sovietici non sono dei cattivi da barzelletta, i tedeschi non ne escono bene, peggio gli israeliani, bene i francesi, così e così gli statunitensi. Ovviamente Britannia rules, ma va ...more
Jan 04, 2014
Nooilforpacifists
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This was fun--zany, not as serious as the Samson works. And, the real mystery is revealed only at the end.
Brilliant and, inter alia, it inspired me to write Beyond Enkription, the first of six stand-alone fact based novels in The Burlington Files series based on my life.
I find it amusing that some critics have described me as "the posh Harry Palmer" in Beyond Enkription, the first of six stand-alone fact based novels in The Burlington Files series based on my life!
PS I am aware that Len Deighton did not refer to the protagonist in several of his novels including The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berl ...more
I find it amusing that some critics have described me as "the posh Harry Palmer" in Beyond Enkription, the first of six stand-alone fact based novels in The Burlington Files series based on my life!
PS I am aware that Len Deighton did not refer to the protagonist in several of his novels including The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berl ...more
“Funeral in Berlin” is a beautifully written spy novel by one of the genre’s finest, with a complicated plot, lots of characters, and thankfully some clarification at the conclusion on what it was all about. It’s a little less direct and breezier than later novels in the Bernard Samson series but very effective in displaying the complications of the Cold War and divided Berlin.
Our unnamed British spy, known as Harry Palmer in subsequent movies starring the character, is charged with coordinating ...more
Our unnamed British spy, known as Harry Palmer in subsequent movies starring the character, is charged with coordinating ...more
Deighton portrays Cold War Berlin in such detail that the reader creates his own film in his mind rather than watch the 1966 movie starring Michael Caine. The unnamed protagonist ("Harry Palmer") is a working class spy, the deliberate counterpoint to Connery's Bond. The plot is complicated and plausible. The bad guys come across as real people: you can smell the stale booze on their breaths. The tension builds without much need for slam-bang action. Twenty years later, the first Bernard Samson t
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