Berlin Game
By Len Deighton
4.5/5
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About this ebook
Long-awaited reissue of the first part of the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.
East is East and West is West – and they meet in Berlin…
He was the best source the Department ever had, but now he desperately wanted to come over the Wall. ‘Brahms Four’ was certain a high-ranking mole was set to betray him. There was only one Englishman he trusted any more: someone from the old days.
So they decided to put Bernard Samson back into the field after five sedentary years of flying a desk.
The field is Berlin.
The game is as baffling, treacherous and lethal as ever…
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Reviews for Berlin Game
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a fantastic post-war espionage novel! Len Deighton is great at creating a sense of time and place....creating an atmosphere....which is a big part of the charm of post-war spy thrillers. It's also a great first book in a 'trilogy of trilogies' - it works perfectly well as a standalone book, but it also absolutely hooks the reader into wanting to keep reading about Bernard Samson.
The only reason I gave this 4 instead of 5 is because it reminds me of Le Carre, specifically 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'.....without the psychological complexity and subtlety of Le Carre (read as "no one can come close to my precious Le Carre").
But let me reiterate.....this is a fantastic post-war spy novel.....complex, engaging, clever, lean and well written..:..and I will certainly be reading the rest of the books in the series. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Worried 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.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5While 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.