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In this expansive, rich, and deeply tragic portrait of a German family from 1899 to 1945, Len Deighton brilliantly weaves a portrait of the fortunes of two sons, and a nation, over half a century.

Bernard Samson suspects there is a traitor within his department of MI6. A jaded but highly skilled British intelligence agent nearing the end of his career, Samson already got KGB major Eric Stinnes to defect. But when a British KGB agent makes a sweeping confession with a suspicious undertone, the finger points straight back to London—where Stinnes is locked up, refusing to talk.

A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton’s iconic unnamed protagonist—later christened Harry Palmer—to find out why. His search begins in a grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he ends up amongst the Soviets in Beirut, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister.

When disaffected KGB major Erich Stinnes is spotted in Mexico City, British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice him to take the final step and defect. With his domestic life in shambles and his career heading towards disaster, Bernard needs to prove his re­liability. And he know Stinnes already: Bernard had been interrogated by him in East Berlin. But now, Bernard risks being entangled in a lethal web of old loyalties and old betrayals.

In 1963, Berlin is dark and dangerous. Len Deighton's skilled, jaded, anony­mous hero of The IPCRESS File is now set to arrange the defection—and fake the death—of a leading Soviet scien­tist. "A ferociously cool fable" (New York Times) and one of the first novels written after the construction of the Berlin Wall, Funeral in Berlin revels in the fraught, chilling atmosphere of a divided city.

Berlin Game begins with a plea from “Brahms Four,” one of Britain’s most valuable agents stationed in East Germany: He wants to cross the Iron Curtain and come to the West. Bernard Samson, the former field agent now stationed in London, is tasked with the rescue. But before he even sets out on the mission, suspicions arise that there is a traitor in the MI6, likely one of his closest colleagues.

Skilled Royal Air Force bomber pilot Sam Lambert is exhausted, and his veteran crewmen have just been replaced by an inexperienced new team. Victor von Löwenherz, a German night fighter pilot who intercepts RAF bombers in his Junkers Ju 88, looks on with horror at the Nazi regime. And Hansl, a German boy in the small market town of Altgarten, sleeps at home. Lambert and his crew prepare for a bombing raid on the Ruhr area. It’s a night that many will never forget. Bomber is a masterful, gripping minute-by-minute account of what occurs over the next twenty-four hours.

It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at first appears to be a routine murder investigation sends him into a world of espionage, deceit, and betrayal.

I slutningen af 1960’erne ankommer en engelsk agent til Paris på en noget mærkelig opgave. Han skal mødes med nogle kinesere for at få dem til at forstå, hvor farlige amerikanernes atombomber faktisk er, og at det er en dårlig idé for alle at starte en storkrig. Men han er ikke den eneste agent i Paris. Byen vrimler med spioner fra alverdens landes efterretningstjenester, og før han ved af det, er han ude, hvor han ikke kan bunde. Len Deighton (f. 1929) er en britisk forfatter, der især er kendt for sine spionromaner.

Den britiske spion Charles bliver sendt på en ubehagelig opgave. Han skal udspionere Steve Champion, som efterretningstjenesten mistænker for våbensmugling. Under 2. verdenskrig var Charles og Steve med i samme modstandsgruppe i Sydfrankrig, og nu må Charles bruge dette bånd og de mange minder til at komme tæt på Steve igen. Men er Steve overhovedet skyldig? Og har han opdaget Charles’ mistanke? Én ting er i hvert fald sikker - spioner har ingen venner. Len Deighton (f. 1929) er en britisk forfatter, der især er kendt for sine spionromaner.

Under Den Kolde Krig er kapløbet mellem Vesten og USSR om videnskab og atomkraft i fuld gang. Derfor bliver briterne ellevilde, da den russiske oberst Stok foreslår en handel: Han vil levere den geniale russiske videnskabsmand Semitsa over Berlinmuren - ved bevidsthed eller ej - til gengæld for en svimlende sum. Topagenten Harry Palmer bliver sendt til Berlin af den britiske efterretningstjeneste for at sørge for den lyssky aftale, men intet går som planlagt ... Len Deighton (f.