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For anyone who thinks Len Deighton was not as good a writer as John LeCarre; please realize you are mistaken in underestimating him. This series of three books more than shows he can stand alongside his more well-known rival. Reading this work will demonstrate that to you fully. The two authors simply work in different styles, as one might expect of two separate talents. Deighton never needed to imitate LeCarre to produce works of equal stature in this genre. And by the way, Deighton's non-espio
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I have no good excuse why this book took me so long to read, it was a bloody good spy novel, up there with le Carre. And it finishes off the first trilogy in the trilogy of trilogies. I look forward to the next one.
I had and still have an enormous respect for John Le Carre and preference for his books. I have three or four others tied for second place. After reading this first, for me, of Len Deighton's books I am so deeply impressed and I'll place him in among those sharing second place! I love the way that Deighton reveals the story in dialogues between the main character and the other denizens of Cold War British intelligence. In particular in a lengthy back-and-forth between the main character and his
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Nov 10, 2010
Gary
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Jul 15, 2012
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