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    Berlin Game

    By Len Deighton

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 10, 2010
    ISBN9780007387182
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    Reviews for Berlin Game

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    • 3/5
      Great fun. Deighton occasionally overdoes the noir sensibility. The tragic plot is predictable, and not exactly believable. But I still enjoyed the characters and the writing, and, especially, the Berlin setting. Lots of details I've never read elsewhere. I also liked the dialog, how Deighton always keeps a second minor action going on in the background, in continuity over several pages. Not enough authors do this.
    • 4/5
      Worried about a traitor in the highest ranks of British intelligence, Brahms Four, one of Britain's most important and most secret East German sources, wants out. Bernard Samson is the only current agency employee who has ever seen Brahms Four, but he's no longer a field agent and he would like to keep it that way. As he is reluctantly pulled deeper and deeper into the crisis, Samson races against time to identify the traitor among his colleagues.This spy thriller from the early 1980s seems to reflect some of the uncertainties in the Eastern Bloc that would result in revolutionary changes by the end of the decade. I enjoyed reading about Berlin locations that I had visited right before I read the book. The plot was occasionally difficult to follow, and Samson didn't reveal all of his suspicions to the reader. Samson is a likeable hero, and I'll look for more of his adventures when I'm in the mood for this genre.
    • 4/5
      Plot-wise, this covers a lot of the same ground as 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'. Deighton doesn't have le Carre's way with words, but that's not really a bad thing - this is a much clearer, tighter, and more focused novel. The language is precise and punctuated with Chandleresque descriptions, the story rolls forward at a nice pace.
    • 4/5
      The first Len Deighton book I have read. One of his other books, SS-GB is currently being televised but I found the first episode tripe so I haven't watched any more.Berlin Game is quite well written, although I did find the plot jumping about a bit - taking some leaps forward at times. Interesting characters, which are developed really through their conversations, rather than their surroundings. The ending kept me guessing though.
    • 3/5
      The trilogy - Berlin Game, Mexico Set, & London Match were first published in 1983 - 1985, only a generation ago, but they seem dated when read today. Apart from the obvious changes in technology - no mobile phones and no PCs - it is the smoking, the incessant drinking and the sexism that seem out of place.Deighton's writing style seems more screenplay than novel. Just as a movie is often a distillation of the original novel, these books seem spare to a fault - nothing is included that is not needed for the plot. For example, when the hero's wife defects and leaves him with the children, the kids are not meetings for the next 100-odd pages, when their existence becomes important to the plot as a bargaining point.I think that all Cold War era spy novels are inevitably compared with Le Carre books, and you can see the influence here. Deighton ties hard to be cerebral rather action-driven, but fails to be as convincing as Le Carre. But, interestingly, I found the flaws to lie in the action parts of the writing - the southeast seems comically inept, the spies drinking gallons of hard booze before, during and after field operations; the fact that there seems to be only 5 spores in MI6 etc etc.But while there are minor quibbles, I enjoyed my trip back in time with Deighton and found the books hard to put down.Read November 2013.
    • 5/5
      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.